Plans for Nashville Convention

Arrangements are nearly completed for the trip of the Harvard delegation to Nashville, Tenn., to attend the fifth international convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for foreign missions, which is to begin on Wednesday afternoon, February 28, and close on Sunday evening, March 4.

The party will go from Boston to Norfolk, Va., by one of the boats of the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Co., sailing at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, February 24, and arriving at Norfolk early Monday morning. The route from Norfolk will be the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to Louisville, thence by Louisville and Nashville Railroad to Nashville. As the latter road passes Mammoth Cave, a stop of a few hours to see the cave has been planned. The party will reach Nashville Wednesday morning, February 28 and the convention will open that afternoon.

Returning, the men will leave Nashville Monday morning, March 5, and reach Norfolk the following morning. The return boat is due in Boston in time for lectures Thursday morning, March 8.

Among the speakers at the convention will be the following: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden.

The number of delegates Harvard is entitled to send, based on the size of the University, is 48, and nearly all the places have been filled. The cost of the trip will be as follows: round-trip fare Boston to Nashville, $31.95 (including berth and meals on steamer); registration fee, $2; meals and Pullman charges Norfolk to Nashville and return will bring total to about $40. The delegates will be entertained without charge by the citizens of Nashville. Tickets will be placed on sale in Cambridge some time this week.

By vote of the Administrative Board, men on the Dean's List are allowed to go to Nashville, and the cases of other men who wish to go are considered individually by the Board.

The following committee of the Harvard Mission has charge of the trip: C. H. Sutherland '06, R. B. Gregg '07, H. W. Nichols '07, D. J. Knowlton '08, E. G. Stillman '08, F. B. Biddle '09, F. H. Burr '09, E. T. Wentworth '09.