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Last evening Rev. Edward G. Porter, the chairman of the Armenian Relief Committee, lectured in the Fogg Museum on "Armenia and the Red Cross." He was introduced by Professor Goodwin, who spoke briefly of the barbarism always attendant upon Turkish rule, and referred to the case in which the United States formerly interfered in the interests of Greece to prevent Turkish outrages. The lecture then took up his subect...
...division so early caused between Christian Armenian and Tartar was the origin of a feud between the two which survives to the present day and is carried on with an intensity and ferocity impossible to any but a Moslem nature. The massacres have in all cases been the work of the Moslem, and have often been the outcome of official orders. The Turks won the country by arms and by arms they keep it with barbarous misrule and pillage. Nor, in spite of repeated treaties agreed to by the Sultan, has anything yet been done to alleviate the miseries...
...meeting in the interests of the Red Cross movement for Armenian relief should appeal to every member of the University. Busied as we are with so many local interests, it must not be said of us that a call like that which comes from Armenia, a call addressed to no party or nationality or creed, but to humanity, can pass without a strong expression of sympathy. The Red Cross in Armenia means the suppression of the mediaeval atrocities that are going on every day and the saving of countless lives. If Harvard men can do anything towards putting it there...
...account of the meeting of the United Religious Societies of Harvard University, to be addressed on the Armenian question, there will be no meeting of the Harvard Religious Union this evening...
United Religious Societies. Armenia and the Red Cross. Rev. Edward G. Porter, Chairman, Armenian Relief Committee. Lecture Room, Fogg Art Museum...