Word: mission
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FAULHABER has declined the German mission...
...would not detain the alumni longer, and certainly would not detain the government of his country longer. He felt, too, that they cared little to hear him often, as they had approved of his appointment to a foreign mission which would necessarily keep him away for a long time. He was reminded, too, of something which he had read in his diplomatic instructions, and it was fortunate that he had not thought of it a moment sooner, and that was, that all persons in a diplomatic capacity are strictly prohibited from speech-making. They are allowed, indeed, to make...
...will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only 400 tickets are to be issued; 200 have already been secured; the remainder will be for sale at the University Bookstore after Wednesday noon next. The proceeds of this entertainment will be for the benefit of Mission work in Cambridge...
...Goth and the Arab, different in character and mission, alike in magnificence and energy, they came from the north and the south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
...mission fees...