Heard by 20,000 men last year.WHAT IS SAID ABOUT IT.
The Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia.Walter M. Wood, General SecretaryOctober 17, 1908.To Whom it May Concern:It is with great pleasure that I pay a tribute of appreciation to the excellent service of Dr. Winfield S. Hall, in his presentation to audiences of young men of the vital problems of sexual hygiene.With the intelligence of a trained and experienced physician, with the thoroughness and frankness of an expert teacher and with the delicacy and motive of a Christian gentleman, he presents the "Young Man's Problem" in such a way as to make him, in my judgment, one of the most helpful counselors of young men on the American platform today.Sincerely,W.M. WOOD.
The Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia.Walter M. Wood, General Secretary
October 17, 1908.
To Whom it May Concern:
It is with great pleasure that I pay a tribute of appreciation to the excellent service of Dr. Winfield S. Hall, in his presentation to audiences of young men of the vital problems of sexual hygiene.
With the intelligence of a trained and experienced physician, with the thoroughness and frankness of an expert teacher and with the delicacy and motive of a Christian gentleman, he presents the "Young Man's Problem" in such a way as to make him, in my judgment, one of the most helpful counselors of young men on the American platform today.
Sincerely,W.M. WOOD.
University of Notre Dame.Winfield Scott Hall, M.D.,Northwestern University Medical School.My Dear Dr. Hall:In your lecture on "The Young Man's Problem" and in your book on "Sexual Hygiene" you are doing a great service for the rising generation. I am convinced that one great source of vice is ignorance about the matters touched upon in your lecture and book. Priests are constantly giving instruction on these same points, but it is a distinct advantage to have their teaching reinforced by a distinguished physician, expressing himself with the plainness of the laity and speaking always in a most reverential spirit. For students seventeen years of age or more your presentation of this difficult subject will be a God-send, for it abates curiosity, dissipates ignorance, warns of perils and arouses a manly desire for a clean life.Very sincerely yours,JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C.,President.
University of Notre Dame.
Winfield Scott Hall, M.D.,Northwestern University Medical School.My Dear Dr. Hall:
In your lecture on "The Young Man's Problem" and in your book on "Sexual Hygiene" you are doing a great service for the rising generation. I am convinced that one great source of vice is ignorance about the matters touched upon in your lecture and book. Priests are constantly giving instruction on these same points, but it is a distinct advantage to have their teaching reinforced by a distinguished physician, expressing himself with the plainness of the laity and speaking always in a most reverential spirit. For students seventeen years of age or more your presentation of this difficult subject will be a God-send, for it abates curiosity, dissipates ignorance, warns of perils and arouses a manly desire for a clean life.
Very sincerely yours,JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C.,President.
Central Department, Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago.October 21, 1908.Dr. Winfield S. Hall, Northwestern University Medical School.My Dear Dr. Hall:Our committee wants to know if we cannot arrange a date with you this year to deliver your lecture on "The Young Man's Problem." I also want some more of your books on Reproduction and Sexual Hygiene.I cannot forbear to express my very hearty appreciation of the splendid service you have done and are doing to the young manhood of our country in this lecture and this book. I have never heard a presentation of the subject which takes hold so deeply upon thoughtful men, and your book is by all odds the best thing in print on this subject. Your scientific, yet popular method and the absence of vague moralizing are convincing and inspiring in their effects. I trust we may hear you this year.Very truly yours,HERBERT W. GATES,Secy., Religious Work.
Central Department, Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago.
October 21, 1908.Dr. Winfield S. Hall, Northwestern University Medical School.My Dear Dr. Hall:
Our committee wants to know if we cannot arrange a date with you this year to deliver your lecture on "The Young Man's Problem." I also want some more of your books on Reproduction and Sexual Hygiene.
I cannot forbear to express my very hearty appreciation of the splendid service you have done and are doing to the young manhood of our country in this lecture and this book. I have never heard a presentation of the subject which takes hold so deeply upon thoughtful men, and your book is by all odds the best thing in print on this subject. Your scientific, yet popular method and the absence of vague moralizing are convincing and inspiring in their effects. I trust we may hear you this year.
Very truly yours,HERBERT W. GATES,Secy., Religious Work.
Given to many audiences of boys in High-School, Academy, Y.M.C.A. and Summer Camp.
The Institute and Training School of Young Men's Christian Associations, Chicago and Lake Geneva.October 7, 1908.Dr. Winfield S. Hall, Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Ill.My Dear Dr. Hall:I want to express my appreciation of your talk to boys on Sexual Hygiene. I listened with the greatest of interest to your presentation before the Boys' Conference at Lake Geneva the past summer and it seemed to me that both in substance and in form of presentation you hit the nail on the head in a way I had never before seen it done. I believe that your contribution to boys in this direction is to be even greater than that which you have been making to young men.Sincerely yours,FRANK H. BURT,President.
The Institute and Training School of Young Men's Christian Associations, Chicago and Lake Geneva.
October 7, 1908.
Dr. Winfield S. Hall, Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Ill.My Dear Dr. Hall:
I want to express my appreciation of your talk to boys on Sexual Hygiene. I listened with the greatest of interest to your presentation before the Boys' Conference at Lake Geneva the past summer and it seemed to me that both in substance and in form of presentation you hit the nail on the head in a way I had never before seen it done. I believe that your contribution to boys in this direction is to be even greater than that which you have been making to young men.
Sincerely yours,FRANK H. BURT,President.
State Agricultural College of Colorado.Dr. Winfield S. Hall,Fort Collins, Colo., October 27, 1908.Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.Dear Doctor:I wish to testify to the value of your lecture to boys from 12 to 16 years of age. You have touched a vital subject in a most original way that impresses every boy that hears you. You lead up to your "Secret of Manhood" in a manner that holds the attention, impresses the truth you want to teach, so that it is sure to be of lasting good.This lecture I regard as the very best of its kind, which I have ever heard.Sincerely yours,W.H. OLIN.Vice Dean, State Agricultural College of Colorado.
State Agricultural College of Colorado.
Dr. Winfield S. Hall,Fort Collins, Colo., October 27, 1908.Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago.Dear Doctor:
I wish to testify to the value of your lecture to boys from 12 to 16 years of age. You have touched a vital subject in a most original way that impresses every boy that hears you. You lead up to your "Secret of Manhood" in a manner that holds the attention, impresses the truth you want to teach, so that it is sure to be of lasting good.
This lecture I regard as the very best of its kind, which I have ever heard.
Sincerely yours,W.H. OLIN.Vice Dean, State Agricultural College of Colorado.
Princeton Township High School.Princeton, Ill., October 6, 1908.Dr. Winfield S. Hall of the Northwestern University Medical School recently gave a talk to our high school boys along physiological lines, setting forth very scientifically but plainly many delicate and important truths which every boy should know. Dr. Hall is a master of his subject and his manner is so dignified and yet sympathetic that he commands respect and holds the closest attention. I feel sure that such a talk given to boys and young men does a great amount of good.Sincerely,H.S. MAGILL, JR.,Principal.
Princeton Township High School.
Princeton, Ill., October 6, 1908.
Dr. Winfield S. Hall of the Northwestern University Medical School recently gave a talk to our high school boys along physiological lines, setting forth very scientifically but plainly many delicate and important truths which every boy should know. Dr. Hall is a master of his subject and his manner is so dignified and yet sympathetic that he commands respect and holds the closest attention. I feel sure that such a talk given to boys and young men does a great amount of good.
Sincerely,H.S. MAGILL, JR.,Principal.
International Committee, Young Men's Christian Association.Chicago, Ill., October 4, 1908.W.S. Hall, M.D., Chicago, Ill.My dear Doctor:I am more than glad to speak a word in commendation of your lecture to boys on the "Secret of Manhood." To me it is the most sane, safe and logical presentation of a much avoided subject that I have ever heard. The boys at the Lake Geneva Conference were strongly impressed without the undue excitement and morbid curiosity that so often accompany the presentation of the subject of "Personal Purity." And not only were the boys benefited, but all the fifty boy workers present, representing the entire Central West, had nothing but words of highest praise for the way you handled the subject before two hundred older boys.I am glad that you are getting out material for a booklet on the "Secret of Manhood," and shall be pleased to see the manuscript. We are much in need of such a thing and believe the International Committee can aid you in getting it out if necessary. Yours cordially,F.A. CROSBY,Boys' Work Secy., International Committee. Y.M.C.A.
International Committee, Young Men's Christian Association.
Chicago, Ill., October 4, 1908.
W.S. Hall, M.D., Chicago, Ill.My dear Doctor:
I am more than glad to speak a word in commendation of your lecture to boys on the "Secret of Manhood." To me it is the most sane, safe and logical presentation of a much avoided subject that I have ever heard. The boys at the Lake Geneva Conference were strongly impressed without the undue excitement and morbid curiosity that so often accompany the presentation of the subject of "Personal Purity." And not only were the boys benefited, but all the fifty boy workers present, representing the entire Central West, had nothing but words of highest praise for the way you handled the subject before two hundred older boys.
I am glad that you are getting out material for a booklet on the "Secret of Manhood," and shall be pleased to see the manuscript. We are much in need of such a thing and believe the International Committee can aid you in getting it out if necessary. Yours cordially,
F.A. CROSBY,Boys' Work Secy., International Committee. Y.M.C.A.
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