Word: leper
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...that a few men should have a "privacy" which by fostering snobbishness may be as harmful as helpful. As for lowering restrictions, it has been notorious for several years that any man with money enough to buy an expensive suite could get into some House unless he was a leper on probation. An undergraduate library, which requires a separate discussion, would dispose of most of the House library problems, but the dining hall situation still remains. Possibly splitting the meal sessions into shifts would help solve the question. In any case, students should be willing to make certain sacrifices from...
...during her first year in India, Missionary Reed chanced to visit a hill-country colony of 500 lepers and became interested in their plight. In 1891, on her first furlough home to the U.S., she learned she had become a leper herself. Without telling her friends, she returned to India, started work among the lepers at Chandag. Because lepers have very little strength, most leprosariums have some non-leper helpers. Chandag had none. Miss Reed preached, healed, built a church and then dormitories, nursed her lepers, organized them into a self-helping community...
Last week's honors for Mary Reed were part of the 34th annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers, an interdenominational Protestant offshoot of the 67-year-old British Mission to Lepers. Together the two operate 200 colonies for 150,000 lepers in 48 countries. This year the American Mission raised $300,000 for its work. This is a new high record-but it is only $2 per leper in the church colonies, and less than 6? each for the five to ten million lepers in the world...
...beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian officer in a fever of hurry and worry...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...