Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Danish students in Copenhagen showed much interest in our mission and heartily joined us in our efforts towards an exchange of ideas. At one of our meetings with the Danish students a most interesting discussion on the armament question was held. Though no public meetings were allowed in Copenhagen, still much enthusiasm was aroused in a meeting held by the Student's Free-Thinking Association, which was addressed by both American and Danish men and women students. A dinner was given by our own party to the Danish students who came from distant parts of Denmark solely for the purpose...
...Greater Boston League of Student Volunteers will meet in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, and all members of the University interested in any phase of foreign mission work are urged to attend. Mr. Russell and Miss Hagard, secretaries of the Student Volunteer Movement, will talk on the value of foreign missions...
...find itself less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize what a challenge its won attitudes are to our homely American ways of thinking and feeling. Since the college has not felt this dramatic contract or at least has not felt a holy mission to assail our American mushiness of thought through the undergraduate, it has rather let the latter run away with the college...
...specific manner shape Prussian legislation of the early nineteenth century; his views were too individualistic and too little concerned with national needs for that. Not Kant but the men who followed him--Stein, Hardenberg, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Fichte, and Hegel--have been official exponents, so to speak, of the mission of Prussia for a regenerated Germany. But it is nevertheless true that the spirit of the whole work of legislative reform which brought about the reconstruction of Prussia after the battle of Jena would not have been what it was but for the influence of Kant's thought. 'Thou canst...
...daily program at Northfield will begin with a rising bell at 7.30. At 8.30 various special classes will be held such as social service, Bible study, or mission study. From 9.30 to 12.30 will be devoted to vocational discussion, in which men interested in different forms of life work will have a chance to talk with experienced men. The afternoons are given over to various forms of out-door recreation, including a tennis tournament, baseball league games, a track meet, and good swimming in the Connecticut. In the evenings there are out-door addresses on a neighboring hill-side...