Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Serbian War Mission visiting Boston today will include the University in its itinerary. For two hours, after a luncheon to be given at the Boston City Club, the party will inspect the University buildings, finishing the tour by 4 o'clock in order to be present at a reception held by the Mayor of Boston...
...spent last summer in Russia as a member of the American Red Cross Mission. Our party consisted of twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies...
Please tell the students of Harvard University that President Wilson's words have struck the profoundly responsive chord in the hearts in the Argentines, showing thus that continental solidarity, as a means of fulfilling a high civilizing mission, is based on the common history of the struggles for freedom and democracy. (Signed), HECTOR DIAZ LEGUIZAMON, President. MARIANO J. DRAGO, Vice President...
...last meeting of the Corporation of the College, Major William Francis Flynn, commandant of the R. O. T. C., was appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Colonel Azan and Lieutenant Morize of the French Military Mission to the University have also been appointed Lecturers on Military Science and Tactics, and Lieutenant Edward Forbes Greene, U. S. N., retired, who is in charge of the course of instruction for undergraduates in preparation for the ensign examinations, has been appointed Lecturer on Naval Science and Tactics...
...counter the discouragement and distress. But if the justice and unselfishness of our cause is sufficiently felt, then defeat should serve as a stimulus to greater sacrifices, and eventual success. To give this message, not to Italy alone, but to Germany and Austria as well, is America's mission today...