Word: missions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...under the auspices of the New Jersey State Union of Student Volunteer Bands. Some 250 delegates were present, representing about fifty educational institutions for both men and women in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and New York and vicinity. The conference consisted of six meetings in which eleven addresses on mission fields and the practical aspects of mission work in colleges were delivered by men prominent in foreign missions...
...conference of the World's Student Christian Federation at Tokyo during the first week of April, which will be the first meeting of any great Christian organization in Asia, and will be attended by several hundred representatives, including a large majority of Hindus, Chinese and Japanese besides leaders in mission work from all parts of the world--but on account of his work on the committee and his attendance at the Shanghai conference, he has been unable to accept. The general work of the committee will be to make a journey through all parts of China in order to visit...
...following vote was passed by the Corporation: "In accepting with regret Professor Strobel's resignation, the Corporation desire to record their high regard for his services to the University, which they know to have been interrupted and now terminated only by a mission offering unique opportunities of public usefulness...
...honor of Mr. J. N. Farquhar who, as general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Calcutta, has been intimately associated with E. C. Carter '00, the Christian Association's representative in India, the Harvard Mission has arranged a small dinner which is to be given in the committee room of the Union this evening at 6 o'clock. Mr. Farquhar is a graduate of Oxford who has been in this country on his furlough, and is to sail this week on his return to India. R. H. Oveson 2L. will preside at the dinner, and Mr. Farquhar...
...cover that is attractive as well as striking. The brilliant central figure, though it may predominate too complacently, shows that the Lampoon believes only in victory. The chief illustration, "Football under the New Rules," also will hold the attention. Here, however, the cartoonist seems to have forgotten his mission; carried away by his humor he derides the very rules that assure Harvard cleaner sport and a game. Of the many smaller drawings undoubtedly the best is that signed M. O. in monogram...