Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rising bell will ring at 7.30. The dining room closes promptly at 8. 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 discussions, in which men interested in different forms of life work will have a chance to talk with experienced men. At 11 o'clock there will be talk by some religious leader, such as John R. Mott, H. E. Fosdick, Robert E. Speer, or Sherwood Eddy. The afternoon is given over to athletics and other forms of outdoor recreation, which...
...various undertakings in mission work which have given the University the foremost position among the colleges of this country in this field of endeavor, the Harvard Medical School of China is the most significant. Founded in Shanghai, China, precisely at the moment of the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, at a time when the whole Chinese Empire was in a state of turmoil and strife, the School has grown steadily until it now occupies an excellent group of buildings supplied free of rent by the Chinese Red Cross Society. The unsettled condition of the country at the time...
...that the editors were short of material and had to fill up somehow. It is frankly undergraduate, frankly literary, devoid of pretensiousness and and affectation, entirely normal and sane. Undergraduate publications are apt to be either trivial and careless or else over serious, too much impressed with their splendid mission. Both these pitfalls the Monthly successfully avoids...
...physicians, and sanitary inspectors, who are going to fight the typhus and cholera which is raging in Servia, will sail on the Athenia from New York this afternoon at 4 o'clock. They will be supported by the American Red Cross for an indefinite stay in Servia since their mission is a very dangerous and uncertain...
...Conference will last ten days this summer, beginning on June 25, the day after Commencement, and continuing through July 4. The days will be divided into three parts: the mornings, in which the various social service, mission study classes, and addresses by such leaders as Dr. H. E. Fosdick and Dr. J. R. Mott will be given; the afternoons, devoted to tennis tournaments, boating, swimming, and baseball games, and the evenings given over to big outdoor meetings on Round Top, addresses in the auditorium, and delegation meetings. The aim of the Conference is to give the undergraduate an opportunity...