Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference will start at luncheon tomorrow noon when President Meiklejohn will discuss "The Role of the College Student in Administrative and Curricular Reform". At dinner the same day Professor Robinson will talk upon "Of What Importance that the Student have a Social and Political Mission?" A breakfast discussion on Sunday morning will be devoted to problems of defining, formulating, and especially executing liberal policies in the field of student activities. The delegates will give brief descriptive and expositional reports on college forums, curricular, liberal journals, and constructive aspects of student government. The situations abroad will be discussed...
According to The Chicago Daily News, Rear Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, commander of the American Asiatic squadron, was not accorded an audience by the Prince Regent, although such courtesy was shown to members of the French economic mission and to Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, commander of the British China squadron. The News says: " While the Prince Regent is departing for Formosa [southermost island of the Empire], and this may account for his inability to receive the American naval commander, courtesy would require that at least the Empress act, in view of the fact that the Emperor is unable...
...Loucheur said, on return: went to England without any official mission. . . . I talked with members of the English Government, some of whom have been my friends for a long time. I saw them and can state that the situation of France is beginning to be better understood by English opinion. I am persuaded that an agreement is possible without sacrificing the legitimate interests ot France." He went to England in opposition to that section of French opinion who favor a peace settlement without Britain. His purpose was to tighten the slackened bonds of the Entente Cordiale, and many Paris papers...
Britain. Conservatives, Liberals and nonradical labor condemn the execution as an act of cold blooded murder. The radicals blame the Government for causing the death of the prelate by refusing to recognize Russia. There is some talk of breaking commercial relations off and recalling the British Mission...
...report of the Harvard Mission of the Phillips Brooks House puts that theory to the test, and finds it wanting. Men have gone out from Harvard to the American University of Beirut in Syria, to Robert College in Constantinople, and to many other places in the Near-East, and have written back the most enthusiastic letters. They are making sacrifices--as is popularly supposed, but they are getting something in return. They are getting something better than an all-American point-of-view...