Word: mission
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...here, but there is still much room to spread and strengthen her reputation and fame. In Europe her lecturers have been received with the greatest respect as representing the highest type of American learning; in the Far East her influence has been felt through the representatives of the Harvard Mission. China has shown her trust in American education and in this University by sending many students to Cambridge, and it seems particularly fitting for Harvard to take a part in the teaching of medicine in that country...
...opportunity of hearing President Eliot needs no further indorsement than the mere announcement. Mr. Carter is not so well known to the present College generation as to that of six or seven years ago. At that time he left the University for India, the representative of the Harvard Mission, to become one of the great Christian influences in the far East. Only because of the need of his presence in this country among the student associations of the various colleges was he recalled from India...
President Eliot and Mr. E. C. Carter '00, of New York, who, for several years was the representative of the Harvard Mission in India, and is now secretary of the student department of the Young Men's Christian Association in North America, will speak at a Bible-study conference to be held under the auspices of the Christian Association in Appleton Chapel this evening at 7 o'clock. President Eliot's subject will be "The Place of the Bible in the Spiritual Development of a Man," and Mr. Carter's "The Influence of the Bible in India." Professor...
...graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House for two years. At the end of this term he left for India, where he took up his residence in Calcutta, to act as national secretary in India for the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been supported largely by the Harvard Mission. Last year he was recalled to work among the student associations of colleges in North America...
Nietzsche must be understood as the expression of the present mental crisis in Germany. His greatest work is "Zarathustra." Upon its appearance he was acclaimed by the noisy multitude as a Messiah, although his mission is that of a John the Baptist. He marks the turning point at an exceedingly low epoch, toward an as yet unknown future. This work is aphoristic in style, and is the result of his spiritual creative faculty...