MY DEAR SIR AND BROTHER:—Through you I desire to salute the members of the C. L. S. C. to assemble at Lake Grove. Nothing but official engagements of an imperative character could keep me from the fellowship of the six circles on the 30th inst. I hail with joy all these movements which tend to develop the social life of our members, and to create within the circle something of the class and society spirit which characterizes the college. An important factor of school life is the association of students and the sympathy growing out of similar aims and experience. The delight which accompanies the development and play of such sentiments is not limited to the early years of life, nor are the relief, the recreation and the inspiration which it furnishes alone needed by youthful students. Full grown men need and can appreciate the same; and it is the object of the C. L. S. C. to promote it by our class spirit, by our annual and class songs, by the mottoes, often repeated, by the sundry devices which tend to make the C. L. S. C. a union of hearts. Accept my hearty salutations. May I exhort you all to be diligent missionaries of the C. L. S. C. Idea? Enlist as many members as you can in the class of 1888; and where it is impracticable to enlist members as members of the C. L. S. C., present to them with strong argument, the scheme of the “Spare Minute Course,” which will sooner or later result in larger work proposed by the older society. Praying that our Heavenly Father may be in the midst, that you may continue to study his word and works, and in all these you may never be discouraged, I remain your affectionate fellow-student, J. H. VINCENT, Supt. Instr. C. L. S. C. J. C. HASKELL, Pres. Auburn C. L. S. C. It is hoped that a summer school will follow in the train of this first meeting. LAKE D’FUNIAK, FLORIDA. During the past year plans have been matured for holding an Assembly at Lake D’Funiak, Florida. The C. L. S. C. will, of course, be the great feature of the gathering. As the Assembly meets in February we may hope to report its work in the present volume of THE CHAUTAUQUAN. MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, MARYLAND.