The state committee of the Young Men's Christian Association is making an effort to secure the appointment of a secretary who shall have general charge of the work in the colleges and preparatory schools of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The two states are united in one state association and so would be considered together. A committee, consisting of W. C. Douglass, L. S., A. S. Johnson '85, and G. H. McClellan of Brown, has been formed for the purpose of introducing the subject to the colleges, and has thus far met with a most encouraging reception.

Their idea is to have a man whose special department shall be the work of the association in the higher educational institutions and those schools which fit for them, situated in the two states. Such a man would act under the advice

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