The St. Paul's Society held a reception last night in Phillips Brooks House to the churchmen of the University. Mr. Gibson Bell, president of the society, presided.

The first speaker of the evening was the Rev. W. G. Thayer, head master of the St. Mark's School. He explained the aims of the St. Paul's Society in the church and in the community, and showed the great opportunities it furnishes for doing good.

The Rev. Edward L. Atkinson followed with an address on the necessity of mingling with the various absorbing interests of the University, a manfully religious churchmanship, maintained outwardly as well as inwardly by purity of motive, courage, and spiritual endeavor.

The closing address was made by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts. He compared the present size of the society with that which it had when Harvard was smaller and the meetings were held in the basement of University Hall. In the growth of the society with the University there is great encouragement. The danger that exists from over-development of the intellectual faculties to the exclusion of religion can be successfully met by engaging a work like that which the St. Paul's Society provides.