Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from Gordon W. Allport '19, who was sent by the Harvard Mission to teach in Robert College in Constantinople, has just been received by W. I. Tibbetts '17, Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House. In this letter Mr. Allport tells of a recent reunion of Harvard men, his social service work, and the life and conditions in Constantinople. The communication follows: January...
...going to make a request of the Harvard Mission, and I hope the committee will see its way clear to grant it. The thing that is most desired in the club, a thing which all the people of this country enjoy, is a Victoria. It would be a great attraction if we had one to put in the club. Of course, the machine would belong permanently to the Social Service Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and could be used for concerts on other occasions. Would it not be possible to get some friend to donate a machine...
These officers form the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet together with the Graduate Secretary, Social Service Secretary President of the Christian Association President of the St. Paul's Society, President of the St. Paul's Catholic Club Chairman of the Social Service Committee, Chairman of the Harvard Mission Committee, Chairman of the Chapel Committee, Secretary of the Graduate Schools Society, Secretary of the Law School Society, Secretary of the Medical School Society, and the Secretary of the Dental School Committee...
...allegation has now been made by the authorities that a letter written by the professor to the Reverend Mr. A. F. Hensey of the Bolenge Equatorial Mission in the African Congo was intercepted by the British and turned over to the U. S. Government. A portion of this letter which is reputed to have started the investigation follows...
...most unfortunate that nearly half the Harvard delegation was obliged to leave at about the middle of the conference, when there was some feeling of disappointment and dissatisfaction. Those, however, who had hoped for a broader discussion, could not help recognizing that the foreign mission work as now conducted--in which pure proselyting is far less emphasized than formerly--has very decided social and international implications--for example, the education of the Mexican peons. Again, the convention, including as it did representatives of most of the Protestant denominations, was free entirely from the suspicion of sectarianism, and was narrow only...