Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Christian Association has secured the consent of Professor E. C. Moore, of the Divinity School, to lead this year a class which will study the work carried on by the foreign mission boards in the non-Christian countries. This work will be considered in its broadest relations as touching the social and economic conditions of the countries as well as the moral and religious conditions...
...afternoon in Harvard 1. His subject was "The Revival of Learning in the Fifteenth Century." Professor Morgan led up to his discussion by a short summary of the men who were the forerunners of the change. The Renaissance, he said, was a general resurrection of European intellect. At first, foreign teachers only undertook to instruct the people in the classics, but later the Italians themselves took up the work. The influence of the Medici was great. Not only manuscripts, but even statuary and coins were eagerly sought for. Towards the end of this period the art of printing was discovered...
...important factor, in the great success which the University debating teams have won. This is not to say that the members of the teams are looked upon as passive material, to be moulded by the coach according to his will. Such a point of view is utterly foreign to the Harvard system, which, on the contrary, strives to make the University debater fully dependent on his own discretion and best judgment, holding out to him as an ideal that he should know his subject so thoroughly as to be able to take part in a debate with Yale or Princeton...
Assistant Professor Westengard will also leave this summer for Siam where he will take up the duties of assistant secretary to the foreign office of the Siamese government...
Professor Sargent's last foreign botanical expedition was to Japan...