Avery, March 15, 1915

1. All who wish the students well wish to see a greater number under positive religious influence than prevails at present. We also wish to see greater earnestness and greater intellectual power connected with the religious life. We wish further to have the religious life of the students so developed that they may be strong and active workers in religious organizations after leaving the University particularly if they should settle, as most of them will in communities where the religious life of the University Y.M.C.A. is not open to them.

2. I do not know that any formal changes are necessary. I would like myself to see the secretaries more and more of the type of Wycliffe and John Huss and less of the type of W. A. Sunday. However I recognize that the secretary must making the organization good will demand a hustler. I feel therefore that the student pastor can supply the quieter intellectual and social aids required by the students' religious nature.

3. My own feeling is that we need no re-organization. Development will come normally and there is no crisis that demands immediate action. A closer cooperation between the efficient hustling secretary the student pastor who is a real pastor to the student flook and the strong Christian scholar in the faculty will probably produce the best results obtainable.

March 15 1915