Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor E. C. Moore will sail from New York this morning on his way to China, where he will spend his half-year's leave of absence in his work as a representative of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He left Cambridge for New York yesterday morning; in his start today he will sail for Havre on the steamship La Lorraine...
Professor Moore goes as a member of a committee of three chosen by the American Board to investigate the foreign missionary work which is being done in China. The other two members of the committee are Dr. Barton, the chief secretary of the American Board, and Dr. Warner of New York. During his stay Professor Moore will attend a conference of leaders of all denominations who are doing missionary work in the Chinese Empire, to be held in Shanghal on April 27. He was invited to attend also a conference of the World's Student Christian Federation at Tokyo during...
Committees of this kind are sent out nearly every year by the American Board to different countries to investigate the work which is being done in them under its general supervision. The work in China is largely educational, and corresponds to our ordinary grammar and high school courses. The hospitals and medical schools under the charge of the Board, however, are doing a very important work in giving the people medical care and in teaching them the proper regard for hygiene, which as a nation they lack...
...scene of the play is laid in Madrid, Spain. The characters, with one or two exceptions, are American summer tourists, who happen to meet in Madrid. The principal of the comedy is Percy Winterbottom, a Harvard undergraduate. The music, which is entirely original, has been composed in imitation of Spanish music. There will be several characteristic Spanish dances, and the whole score is calculated to give much of the necessary local color to the comedy...
...Riis, the writer of this article, is a well-known journalist and author, the instigator of many reforms in New York in tenement house and school administrations, and an ardent supporter of movements for securing small parks and playgrounds. Among his books are "The Making of an American," "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "The Battle of the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen...