Word: missions
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...While in college he took a number of debating and public speaking prizes and played on the football team for four years. Since graduation he has spoken frequently at many Universities and colleges both in this country and in England. Mr. Speer is now secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Protestant Church. On his last visit to Cambridge in 1902 he spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union. Among a number of other books, he has written "A Memorial of a True Life," a biography of Hugh Beaver, the son of ex-Governor...
...professorship was created at the last corporation meeting on Oct. 16, when Harlan D. Beach, M. A. F. R. G. S. of the class of '78 was appointed professor of the Theory and Practice of Missions and Instructor in the Chinese Language and Literature. Mr. Beach is to spend every third year in a world tour of the mission fields...
This year the course will be devoted to some of the most interesting historical events in mission countries during the nineteenth century. In this manner the lectures will treat of the Taiping Rebellion in China, the Indian Mutiny, the reform movement in Hindooism the development of Africa, the transformation of Japan, the Armenian massacres, the Boxer uprising, and in general, the place of missions in the history of the nineteenth century...
This society is designed to unite the Episcopalians in the University. It holds evening prayer every Wednesday; does philanthropic work in Episcopal parishes; co-operates with the Harvard Mission in foreign work, and raises money for a bed in Bishop Root's Hospital, Hankow, China; and unites with the Christian Association in offering the various courses given in Phillips Brooks House...
...Harvard Mission...