Word: missioneer
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Though Carlson, O’Donnell, and Gittler are graduating in the spring, the mission they have sought to uphold through Learning Through Libraries will not cease once they leave campus. The trio hope that Ruescher will promote the kind of service exemplified by the project in years to come—and perhaps even turn the undertaking into an actual J-Term course in the future. Currently, the Amigos School in Cambridge has collected over 700 books, waiting to bring literacy to a new group of students abroad through Learning Through Libraries...
...That’s kind of my niche—how one orchestrates the financial angle to support, in the best possible way, the academic mission,” Sterritt said. “What we’ve tried to do at Stanford—insofar as it is possible—is to make the budget cuts invisible to students...
...will again boycott the election or return to violent tactics, the parliament's sleight of hand could be a warning that however much the White House and the American public would like to close the tragic book on Operation Iraqi Freedom, a stable and democratic Iraq is far from mission accomplished...
...painter, that Philippine landscapes and figures began to appear more prominently in the archipelago's art. "Amorsolo's project was to find an idealized Philippine landscape and form of female beauty," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the National University of Singapore's art museum. The artist took his nationalistic mission seriously, often too seriously, dipping his brush deeply in bathos and nostalgia. Amorsolo's paintings were suffused with movement, but they could be earnest to the point of comedy. Though he produced some striking portraits, as well as a haunting landscape of Manila lying in smoky ruins after World...
...past two years, an anonymous critic has been making DGF sightings her mission, posting to this mock fan blog under the charged pseudonym Grimke, taken from the 19th-century intellectual Angelina Weld Grimke...