Word: mission
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ecclesiastic, not a theologian, but a simple lover of men who tried to give them happiness. We must remember that happiness is character, what a man is, not what he has. A young man on the threshold of life must try to find out what his mission is and then devote himself to making the world better and happier...
...national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength in the struggle for an enlightened, unselfish, elevated national consciousness...
Just before Mr. Foster's address, R. H. Bollard '05 spoke naming the purposes of the Harvard Mission as follows...
...Foster will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given in the Union at 6 o'clock by the executive committee of the Harvard Mission, a new project which will be explained at tonight's meeting. At this dinner President Eliot, several members of the faculty, and a number of undergraduates will be present. Mr. Foster will also be the guest of honor at a luncheon to be given at the Colonial Club by Professor A. B. Hart...
Louis Flores, left end, a Mission Indian is 22 years old, and 5 feet 7 inches tall...