Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth annual conference of the Student Volunteer League of Greater Boston will be held Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29, at Andover, Mass., under the auspices of the Phillips Andover Academy. The purpose of the League is to interest college students in mission work and to give men already interested opportunities for doing effective work in that line. Representatives come every year from Harvard, Brown Boston University, Phillips Andover, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and numerous other institutions. The churches of Andover have offered to provide entertainment for those who desire it; and the opportunity to visit a place of such historic...
...Saturday, at 4 o'clock in South Church, Mr. W. E. Doughty, of the Laymen's Missionary Movement; at 7.30 o'clock in Abbot Academy, Rev. J. C. Robbins, of the Philippines, and Mr. E. H. Hume, M.D., of Yale Mission, China...
...total number of applicants for ad- mission under the new plan this June was 148. Of this number, only 115 were admitted to the examinations. The school records of the remaining 33 were not approved because the applicants had records which did not meet some of the requirements of the plan. In some cases, applicants had taken no study within one of the four fields of languages, science, mathematics, and history, no one of which, according to the new plan, may be omitted. In other cases, applicants had not carried two studies of their school program beyond their elementary stages...
...might render good service to the science and art of medicine, and would offer an eminently useful and beneficent career to well-equipped young men who were willing to devote their lives to medical teaching, research, and practice in China. The institution was thought of both as a medical mission and a research laboratory. After consultation with several persons, conversant with the medical and missionary situation in China, the young men brought the matter to the attention of President Eliot, who laid the plan before a small group of gentlemen likely to be interested in the project and well fitted...
Professor Moore made an extensive trip among the schools and missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the spring and summer of 1907. From India he went to Hong Kong, China, by way of Colambo and Singapore, remaining in China for over four months. At that time Professor Moore was able to investigate the new educational movement in China and attend the hundredth anniversary of the establishment by Morison of the first Christian Mission in China. Four weeks in Japan and the return trip via Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and Paris, completed the journey...