Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock tomorrow evening Mr. Thomas Jays of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, will speak at Brooks House under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society on his medical work among the natives of West Africa. Mr. Jays, who was formerly travelling secretary of the British College Christian Union, is now travelling among the American colleges as the representative of the Student Volunteer movement. For several years he has been engaged in medical work in West Africa and expects shortly to return to that country...
...World's Work--"What the British Unionists Saw," by M. G. Cunniff...
...parlor in Brooks House was filled last night with men who came to give a send-off to E. C. Carter '00, who sails for India today. Mr. Carter goes to India invited by the British College Union, and the India National Committee for religious and educational work among the Hindu students. His territory will cover Bengal, the Punjab, and the northwest Indian Provinces, an area two thousand miles long and a thousand miles broad. In this region Mr. Carter will act as advisor of the Christian Associations among the native students, combining and unifying the work of those already...
...Lewis H. Farlow of Boston has recently given the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable collection of Indian baskets. It includes some remarkably fine specimens from the Aleutian Islands, British Columbia and California, and an odd and rare gambling placque of the Yuma Indians of Nevada. Mrs. Q. Nuthall has presented the Museum with several cases of rare Mexican objects, and a representative collection has been received from Mr. Alexander Agassiz, illustrating the ethnology of the Maldive Islands, which he visited last winter...
Professor Edgewater is secretary of the British Economics Association and editor of the economic Journal. He has written a number of books on economic subjects, and is recognized as one of the most acute students in this field of work. Although his special study is the application of mathematics to economics, his lectures will not be mathematical in character. The subjects of the lectures follow in order of delivery...