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====Student ministry==== Graham spoke at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's [[Urbana (conference)|Urbana Student Missions Conference]] at least nine times β in 1948, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1984, and 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intervarsity.org/news/billy-graham-intervarsity--new-york-city-1788 |title=Billy Graham, InterVarsity & New York City |publisher=intervarsity.org |date=June 21, 2005 |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> At each Urbana conference, he challenged the thousands of attendees to make a commitment to follow Jesus Christ for the rest of their lives. He often quoted a six-word phrase that was reportedly written in the Bible of [[William Whiting Borden]], the son of a wealthy silver magnate: "No reserves, no retreat, no regrets".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/regret.htm |title=William Borden: No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets |publisher=Home.snu.edu |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> Borden had died in Egypt on his way to the mission field.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 21, 2018 |title=InterVarsity Remembers Billy Graham |url=https://intervarsity.org/news/intervarsity-remembers-billy-graham |access-date=March 19, 2022 |website=InterVarsity |language=en}}</ref> Graham also held evangelistic meetings on a number of college campuses: at the University of Minnesota during InterVarsity's "Year of Evangelism" in 1950β51, a 4-day mission at Yale University in 1957, and a week-long series of meetings at the University of North Carolina's Carmichael Auditorium in September 1982.<ref>''For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA β 1940β1990'' by Keith Hunt and Gladys Hunt, InterVarsity Press, 1991.{{Page needed|date=March 2018}}</ref> In 1955, he was invited by Cambridge University students to lead the mission at the university; the mission was arranged by the [[Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union]], with London pastor-theologian [[John Stott]] serving as Graham's chief assistant. This invitation was greeted with much disapproval in the correspondence columns of ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Oliver Barclay |url=https://share.trin.cam.ac.uk/sites/public/Alumni/obituaries/Oliver_Barclay.pdf |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=October 4, 2013 |access-date=December 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210183950/https://share.trin.cam.ac.uk/sites/public/Alumni/obituaries/Oliver_Barclay.pdf |archive-date=December 10, 2014 }}</ref>
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