Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon. In the evening it is customary to hold an out-of-doors meeting, the weather permitting,--when men who have been out to the foreign field give their personal experiences and testimony regarding the power of Christ. Last year an hour was devoted each evening to Mission Study, and in these days when ours is a world outlook it is particularly valuable to learn about America's relation and, responsibility towards America, China, Japan, and the other countries of the Near and Far East. One of the most instructive meetings of the entire day is the delegation meeting late...
...subject of the fifth lecture to be given on May 5 by Walter C. Pettit, assistant director of the New York School of Social work. MR. Pettit served during the war as a staff officer in the United States Army and later went to Russia on the Bullet Mission...
...University, in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 4.30 on that day he will speak on the subject "Educational Opportunities in the Near East," when also Dean J. C. Platner of the Andover Theological Seminary, the Rev. Alden Clark, of the American Board Commission for Foreign Missions, and several graduate students who have taught in government schools in China, Japan, and other Far Eastern countries, will be present to discuss informally such questions as "After Harvard, Where?" or the opportunities for teaching for a short time in a mission, government, or independent school or university in some foreign country...
When Prince Joachim shied a plate at the head of a member of the French Mission with true Hohenzollern dexterity, he started more than even he expected. With the American Senate trying to squirm away from under world obligations, Great Britain gasping under active and latent industrial unrest, and the Bolshevik government threatening the Polish frontier, the German monarchists could not have picked a better time for their "comeback." France, alone, has been alive to the dangerous situation, but her warnings were only recently branded by President Wilson as imperialistic tendencies...
...Medical School, and Dr. John Todd of McGill University, have arrived at Geneva to confer with the general medical director of the league of Red Cross societies concerning inquiries the league will carry on in Poland in connection with the study of typhus fever. Other members of the mission are proceeding to Poland...