Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present G. P. Hayes '20 is the representative of the Harvard Mission Committee at Robert College. In addition to college instruction work Mr. Hayes has formed and acts as leader of social service work at the college...
...well as at the University. He has had wide experience in international negotiations, holding the position of American delegate to the International Naval Conference in 1908-09. He was counselor to the American Legation at the Hague in 1914, and later served as legal adviser to the American mission for return of the Dutch ships...
...books netted 944 articles of clothing, over 200 books, and a ton of magazines. Some of the clothes have been given to needy students and the remainder sent to charitable organizations in Boston and Cambridge, besides a case sent to Mr. George P. Hayes, the representative of the Harvard Mission at Hobart College, Constantinople. The magazines have been given to the United States Merchant Marine and the books placed in the Text Book Loan Library. From this library over 1,000 books have already been drawn and from the Law Loan Library over 200 books have been lent...
...last year. Plans are under way for a series of Bible study groups after the mid-year periods. The St. Paul's Society and the Catholic Club are carrying out their usual program of discussing groups, meetings, and corporate communion services. Among the other religious activities have been a mission study group, a discussion group composed of last year's Silver Bay delegates, and another group at the Dental School...
...years past there have been Harvard men engaged in this work; this is very fitting, as Dr. Grenfell is a Harvard man. But just recently there has been some falling off of the representation from Cambridge, due probably to the difficulty of obtaining definite information easily. The Grenfell Mission has always had an appeal for the college undergraduate; with the details of "how to do it" ready at hand, there can be no doubt a number of Harvard men larger than in recent years, will be able to crystallize "that impulse...