Word: mission
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blood displayed by several of the piayers, to say nothing of the bad language used. If this report is to be credited we must impress upon Harvard the necessity of mending her manners before playing the championship games. She must not for a moment forget that it is her mission, to which the vulgar straining for victory must ever be secondary, to set before less favored colleges a shining example of how the cultured gentleman plays foot-ball. [News...
...issued a number of shingles, and now, contented, it sits with folded hands and tearful eyes awaiting the regeneration of the students. If this is the method to be used to check intoxication, it may fairly be asked why on earth the society was ever started, for its mission seems to be only to foolishly await a better state of affairs without aiding it on in the least...
...Congregational Home Mission Society at its meeting at Saratoga yesterday raised $100,000 for mission work in the West and South...
...meeting of the Alpha Delta Phi Prof. James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School responded to the toast, "The public service, - a trust and not a perquisite." His was a brief speech, alluding with facetiousness to his proposed trip to Greece and his mission to plant colonies of Alpha Delta Phi along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington was introduced as a representative of the Harvard Chapter. He told of the perennial power of the fraternity, and of the life-long allegiance which the members owe to it. Men of all the educated...
...Jessup has declined the Persian mission to which he was recently appointed and confirmed, because he cannot speak the Persian language...