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BROOKS HOUSE SOLVED SERIOUS WAR PROBLEMS

NEED MANY WORKERS

Our delegation to the college men's Y. M. C. A. conference at Northfield last spring was the smallest we have sent in some years, consisting of only eleven men, three American and eight foreign students, under the leadership of J. O. Crane '21. However, other college delegations were reduced proportionately, so we need not feel that our poor showing was exceptional.

During the fall team, the S. A. T. C. period, only two of the newly elected officers were in College and the Association was in a disorganized condition; but even if our organization had been complete, we could have done practically nothing, judging from the reports I received of conditions prevailing here.

At this time, the Association suffered a great loss in the death of one of these officers, D. Withington '20, our vice-president.

After the signing of the armistice and discharge of men from the S. A. T. C., and the return of old men to College all College activities began to revive; and we held our first Christian Association meeting on Sunday morning, January 12.

During the next two weeks the president appointed the chairmen of the standing committees, and this cabinet filled the two vacant offices by electing C. P. Fuller '19, vice-president, succeeding D. L. Withington '20, and O. C. Stamper '21, treasurer, to succeed Roger Clapp '19, who had not returned to College. So by the first of February the Association was completely reorganized and was functioning normally.

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Although war conditions have handicapped the present cabinet more than any previous cabinet, and although it has been working together for only two months and a half, that is, since the middle of January, nevertheless, I feel that it has done remarkably well, owing to the enthusiastic, efficient, and conscientious way in which the committees have gone about the solution of various problems.

The following brief sketches of the work of the different committees is taken

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