Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...closed last June. Five Chinese students graduated and received degrees from the Corporation on the recommendation of the Faculty. Authority to grant degrees was conferred on the School last May by the Massachusetts Legislature. The graduates above referred to have already found useful appointments in China,--in mission hospitals, medical schools, etc. One of them has joined the staff of this Schools. That there exists in China a demand for native doctors and health officers trained in the best medical knowledge and skill of the modern world is beyond doubt. Before long it may be expected that the Chinese government...
...Student Volunteer League of Greater Boston, an organization of students who are going into foreign mission work, will meet here on October 24 and 25. Most of the meetings will be held in Phillips Brooks House. The registration of delegates should be complete by October 21. All names should be sent to F. T. Smith '15, Stoughton...
...Students and the Changing World." Among the speakers will be: Dr. M. R. Edwards, Medical School '08, of the Harvard Medical School in Shanghai; Dr. J. N. Mills of Washington, D. C.; Professor I. W. Platner; and Mr. J. C. Robbins, Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions in New York. At one of the meetings will be a symposium on mission work by foreign students in America...
...which are co-operating in social service. Among these societies are the St. Paul's Catholic Club, the Harvard University Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society for students who belong to the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Harvard-Andover Divinity Club, the Menorah Society (Jewish), and the Harvard Mission. Whatever the re- ligious nurture of the young newcomer to the University may have been, he will surely find an appropriate religious organization among the students, and a church of his family's faith ready to welcome him. The Boston churches as well as those of Cambridge make students welcome...
...attendance at morning chapel during the past week. It is to be hoped that the healthy interest which was created by a strong man in the pulpit will continue this week under Doctor Fitch who stands, singularly enough, like Mr. Mott at the head of a world-wide mission movement. As we have observed before the calibre of the man determines the size of the audience and such voluntary attendance is by far the best form of chapel going...