Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Committee on City Missions is desirous to carry on the mission among the sailors in the Boston and Charlestown harbors. It is expected to enlist in this work a body of men, ten of whom will go out every Sunday morning to hold short meetings among the sailors. These ten men will meet also on Saturday night in Holden Chapel to make general preparations. Every man will be required to give from two to three hours on two successive Sundays, while no man will be called for three times in succession...
Among the services of President Eliot to Harvard University, the Faculty cannot fail to mention his frank and wise recognition of the fact that Harvard could not fulfil the mission he imagined for it without both the material and the intellectual wealth, which must be brought by numbers and by popular sympathy and interest. The bold adoption of this fundamental principle of action,- accepted with difficulty by many devoted lovers of Harvard, twenty-five years ago,- has enabled the University, while gaining strenth and freedom for herself; to discharge one of her highest duties to the country, by opening...
Altogether the mission work of the St. Paul's Society has been a great success, and now that the first steps have been taken, great things are hoped for the coming year...
...Bailey '94, S. P. White '95, and M. G. Norton '95; Mr. Cheatham, Mr. Skinner and Mr. Sharpe, creditors of Mr. Pickletop, F. W. Merriman '95, F. A. Dorman '94 and W. S. Youngman '95; Eleanor Pickletop, William Frazar Lee '94; Bathsheba Primrose, a miss with a mission, J. H. Chase '95; Suzanne, a fin de siecle maid, L. de F. Smith '96; Mrs. Casey, E. A. Mott-Smith...
...Addison '96, told of his impressions of the convention. To carry on mission work, he said, is one of our most blessed privileges for doing God's will...