Word: christian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year for promoting discussion and thought among the students on present day political, economic, and social questions was renewed this year with equal success and interest. Weekly Discussion Groups, led by a professor or instructor, have been held since the beginning of the year under the direction of the Christian Association of Brooks House with entirely satisfactory results. A series of discussion meetings, called "A Forum for Harvard Men," were begun on February 11, when Professor Wiener talked to 160 students on "Bolshevism" and subsequent meetings were addressed by Professor Munro, Professor Carver, President Eliot and others...
After the dinner, reports will be read by the president, treasurer, librarian, the presidents of constituent societies, and the chairmen of the standing committees. These will include reports from the Harvard University Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, St. Paul's Catholic Club, Social Service Committee, the Harvard Mission, Chapel Committee, the Graduate Schools Society, and the Medical and Law School Societies...
...connected with the University will speak on subjects of general interest. Among those who have been chosen to address the forums are President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot '53, Professor Clifford H. Moore '89, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Kirsopp Lake, M.A., D.D., professor of Early Christian Literature, and B. J. Morris Ph.D., of the Harvard Bureau of Vocational Guidance...
Charles K. Edmunds, Ph.D., will lecture on "Present Conditions in China" under the auspices of the History Club at the Fogg Museum, Monday, at 4 o'clock. Dr. Edmunds is president of the Canton Christian College, Canton, China, an American institution from which over eighty Chinese students have come to American colleges...
...meeting of the Christian Association in the Phillips Brooks House Parlor tomorrow morning at 9.30, J. W. Farquhar, head of the Literary Department of the Indian Council of the Y. M. C. A., will speak on the subject, "Opportunities for Service in the Near and Far East." At present Mr. Farquhar is collaborating with Indian scholars in works on Indian religions...