Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — Dartmouth Has a New Idea. [ARTICLE]

Dartmouth Has a New Idea.

Dartmouth college is undertaking an interesting social experiment in New Hampshire. A team of five or six representative students are sent around through the rural communities within a reasonable radius of the college. Their mission la not evangelization, but the promotion of sociability. The team includes a man who Is able to "supply" the pulptt of the village church and deliver a simple and earnest sermon. Other members of the little embassy can shag or play some Instrument, enhancing the attractiveness of the Sunday services and contributing to bucolic gaiety on week-day evenings. Concerts, plays, debates, minstrel shows, field days and carnivals of all sorts are organi*ed->~anythlng that will bring the members bf Isolated mountain communitiefl into contact with the legitimate recreative Influences that are enjoyed by.thP9fi.Who live in larger places. This instruction brings a whole neighborhood together and sociability and true heigh*' borliness are promoted. ' •'