Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present, representing about fifty educational institutions for both men and women in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and New York and vicinity. The conference consisted of six meetings in which eleven addresses on mission fields and the practical aspects of mission work in colleges were delivered by men prominent in foreign missions...
...there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...
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...
...increase of 39 over last year. In the academic department there are 1351 students and in the Sheffield Scientific School, 895. Connecticut has the largest representation of the states with 1107 students, followed by New York with 639, Massachusetts 184, Pennsylvania 196, and Illinois 143. Nineteen foreign countries are represented by 88 students, Canada with 23, Japan with 22, and China with 10, having the largest representation. There are 442 members of the faculty this year, as compared with 416 last year...