Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying only to discover which can bear the greatest burden of taxation, is to end the race. The United States would perform a higher mission than every before were she to set the example here...
...clothing will be distributed among local charitable organizations, but most of the text-books will be kept in the Phillips Brooks House loan library, to be used by students on payment of five cents per volume. The magazines will be sent to the seamen's mission and later distributed aboard ships...
...March 18 as the date of his talk in the Living Room of the Union. The topic will be "Service Under Dr. Grenfell" upon which subject no man is capable of speaking with greater authority than Dr. Little For six years he has done increasingly effective work at the mission at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, until at the present time he has entire charge of the Invaluable and completely equipped hospital and acts, in Dr. Grenfell's absence, as head of the mission...
...Student Council, too, this and succeeding forums are of exceeding importance. This body exists to represent undergraduate opinion and to guide its actions by this opinion. Consequently an institution that fosters the free expression of the undergraduates' views aids the Student Council and enables it to fulfill its mission...
...main meaning and mission of the Harvard Union is to become a genuine Social Centre as outlined by Dr. Walker and as progressively illustrated by the University Union of Oxford. With this understanding of it, every loyal member of Harvard University whether student, instructor, officer, or alumnus should become a participating as well as a paying member of the Union. The building is not designed, primarily, as a place for study, or reading, or games, or lounging, or eating--for all of which abundant accommodations are provided elsewhere--but for seeking and cultivating the social element in the University life...