Word: mission
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success of the Fishermen's Reading Room, conducted by the Sailor Mission branch of the Christian Association, marks another step in the progress of Harvard's practical philanthropy. That the undertaking has been a thorough success the large daily attendance of seafaring men shows. But that it might be made more attractive to sailors and so be made still more successful, the experience of its promoters shows; and they have decided to put on file in the room a number of periodicals. To the payment of the subscription prices for these periodicals students are asked to contribute. We hope...
CHINESE NEW YEAR.- The Harvard Christian Association has been celebrating in its Chinese mission at 18 Oxford Street, Boston, the Chinese New Year which began at midnight last Sunday and ends at midnight tonight. It has arranged for visitors personally conducted trips through Chinatown. Only people interested in the Christian work among the Chinamen are invited and only a limited number of tickets have been put on sale. Harvard men taking an interest in the mission will be welcome this afternoon at 18 Oxford Street (three
...Sailor Mission branch of the Christian Association, in its missionary work among the sailors at T Wharf, Boston, is quietly carrying out a very laudable undertaking. Not only is the idea of the Sailor Mission a good one, but the method of the work is extremely sensible and practical. Its "missionary work" is not an attempt to inflate those among whom they work with a transient religious fervor, but to better them spiritually, morally, mentally and, indirectly as a result, physically. The work is truly "humanitarian and philanthropic." That it is of value the recognition of the Fish Commission attests...
...such unselfish, self-sacrificing efforts in the aid of the less fortunate part of society by the Sailor Mission, the Student Volunteer Committee, the Prospect Union, and lesser organizations and by individuals in Harvard, that makes the University an important factor in charitable and philanthropic work and the college man a broad minded citizen, bent not only on his own advancement but on the uplifting of society at large...
...have been supplied at the Prospect Union to fill vacancies in the teaching staff, and teachers have been found for special classes in English and German at the Italian Mission, the North End Union and Parker Memorial, all in Boston. Volunteers have visited three hospitals. Occasionally a man has been added to the groups that have been working at the Sailor's Mission, the Chinese Mission, the Industrial Temporary Home and the John Howard Home. Committees from the religious societies have obtained information from the director that has aided them in the selection of the agencies with which they might...