Word: christian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work upon graduation, he became a student-secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. In the same year he took up missionary work as chairman of the Student Volunteer Movement, and in 1895 was chosen General Secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation...
...London by James Bryce, former British Ambassador to the United States. He spoke of Dr. Mott "as one of the few persons who are prophets in their own country, and whose name throughout the world, Eastern as well as Western, opens the heart and commands the confidence of Christian workers and students as no other name does...
...with the forming of the World's Student Christian Federation consisting of separate Student Movements in 12 countries, Dr. Mott was elected General Secretary, a position which he has held ever since. In that capacity he made an extensive tour of the world, 1895 to 1897, during which he studied carefully the academic life of the different nations and founded the Student Movements of India, China, Japan, and Australia. In recognition of this world-Wide work in behalf of students, Yale University conferred upon him the degree of M. A. in 1899. After this first tour of the world...
...John R. Mott, LL.D., who through his work as Secretary of the Foreign Department of the Young Men's Christian Association has probably more intimate knowledge of the whole European battleground than any other man in the country, will speak to all members of the University in New Lecture Hall next Thursday evening at 6.45 o'clock. Since the outbreak of the war Dr. Mott has made four trips abroad and on three of these he visited every one of the warring nations, this last visit being to the Allied Nations only. In Germany he was permitted by the Imperial...
Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, has invited all the Chinese students from the University and Technology to a reception in Phillips Brooks House on Monday evening at 8 o'clock...