Word: missions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Responsibility of the College" is one of those really serious articles which occasionally make their appearance in the Advocate. The writer makes a plea for mission work to be carried on by the students of Harvard as it is by those of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. Whether such a plea is likely to have any effect on the men at Harvard is a matter of grave doubt. There are a few, no doubt, who would be willing to make the sacrifice, but most of us are too selfish, too securely bound up in our own petty lives...
...Meter of Rome will speak to-night at 6.45 in the Christian Association rooms on the work of the Italian bible and Sunday-school mission. All members of the university are invited...
...greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake his tenderest sensibility and his kindest impulses. [Applause...
After all, it has come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...
...motion of Yale, Harvard at the last meeting of the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, was re-admitted into the league. We hail this read-mission with feelings of genuine satisfaction. The position that Harvard men hold in the ranks of the amateur sportsmen is marred only by our inferiority in foot-ball. The action of the faculty last winter and our return to the college league, have placed us where we can show that our prowess in athletics is not confined to rowing, base-ball, lacrosse, polo, and field sports...