[Miscellaneous College Association pamphlets] The Christian movement in the Universities of America, Europe and Asia, delivered before the Universities' congress. Chicago, Donnelley & sons, 1893; Report of the travelling secretary of the theological section of the student YMCA 1897-1899.; Progress o
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