1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 145One of the results of his work was the establishment of theSouthern Student Conference now held each year at Asheville.On resigning from the student secretaryship of theInternational Committee, he became a secretary of the StudentVolunteer Movement, serving with great success for a year.In 1898, Brockman sailed for China having been appointedone of the foreign secretaries of the International YoungMen's Christian Association. For two years he was stationedat Nanking. Then he was appointed the national secretaryfor China, Hong Kong and Korea, with headquarters atShanghai, where he now resides. .As national secretary, heis responsible largely for shaping the policy of the YoungMen's Christian Associations in the great cities and in thecolleges and universities of those countries. He visits theassociations, conducts conferences, supervises the editorialand publishing departments and aids in organizing and developingthe associations. There has been a remarkable growthin the work since Brockman became the national secretary.The number of associations in the great cities has increasedand there are now organizations among all the leading collegesand universities. Very strong organizations have been builtup at such cities as Shanghai, Tientsin, Hong Kong and Seoul.Brockman has given especial attention to the problem ofbringing the principles of the Christian religion to the literati—the educated class of China. It is believed that the planswhich have been worked out will result in reaching this veryimportant class, more effectively than ever before.Brockman was married in 1896 to Miss Mary Buford Clarkof Columbia, S. C. With his wife and three little sons heresides in Shanghai. Any Phi, visiting that great city, wouldbe heartily welcomed by the Brockmans.FENNELL P. TURNER, Vanderbilt, '91.At a cost of ;?25o,ooo the University of California hasacquired the library of Hubert Howe Bancroft, author of"Native Races of the Pacific" and "History of the PacificStates." Mrs. Hearst has recently made to the university agift amounting to nearly i¥5oo,ooo. For the last seven yearsshe has been collecting from all parts of the world archaeologicaland anthropological material and this collection, mostof which is in a building of the affiliated colleges in San Francisco,she has given to the university. The gift includes thematerial contained in the museum of classical art and antiquitiesestablished at Berkeley. In addition Mrs. Hearst gives|16o,ooo to the university for the maintenance of the departmentof anthropology.