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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Student Organizations and Activities 181 there were 473 young women enrolled in voluntary Bible study classes and 75 in the study of missions and social service. Within recent years ten leading religious denominations have made special efforts to provide facilities for the accommodation of the students of the University. The majority of these employ one or more student pastors and have either already erected or are planning to erect student churches in the immediate vicinity of the University. In addition, the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregational and Christian Churches maintain each a dormitory for the accommodation of young women. In connection with the Trinity Methodist Church a group of buildings to cost $500,000 is being erected by the Methodists of the state to serve as a social and religious center for all students of this denomination. The Bushnell Guild of the Congregational Church, the Bethany Circle of the Christian Church, the Christian Science Society, and the Seymour League (Episcopalian), all of recent origin, are four of a large number of young people's religious societies the membership of which is chiefly made up of students of the University. The Geneva Club is composed of those who have been in attendance at the Geneva Y. W. C. A. Conferences. The Catholic Students' Association is made up of students of the Eoman Catholic faith. The Student Volunteers at the University are regularly enrolled in the Student Volunteer Band. The Menorah Society is a local branch of the National Menorah Society, an organization of Jewish students having for its aim the study of Hebrew ideals, history and culture. DRAMATIC Three student organizations now exist at the University for the purpose of fostering dramatic interests, namely the Mask and Bauble Club, the Pierrots, and the Illinois Drama Federation. All of these have been founded during the last sixteen years. The first two named plan to present one or more plays annually. The third organization is active in promoting and correlating the various dramatic interests at the University, and seeks especially to bring about the ultimate erection of a
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