Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the different colleges to meet for an unhurried consideration, in especially agreeable surroundings, of the vital significance of Christianity for the colleges and for the college man in his various callings. The daily program includes two meetings of all the delegations, group classes for Bible study, mission study, or the study of social problems, and larger group conferences on life work. The afternoons are given over entirely to recreation; an intercollegiate baseball series, a tennis tournament and a track meet are among the diversions arranged. The leaders and speakers are always men well acquainted with student life...
...Better Man" is a serious play in a bowery mission in New York. The leading character is "Easy" Joe, who is a drunkard reformed at the "Bridge Mission." The Governor of the State makes a speech at the Mission, in which he praises brotherly love and help of the unfortunate. Joe claims the Governor as his brother. The latter part of the play is a conflict of the Governor between the dignity of his office and the claim of the drunkard, in which finally the Governor accepts Joe as his brother...
...Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D., F.R.G.S., will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Present Struggle in Western Asia" under the auspices of the Harvard Mission, in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening...
...Edward Balch Barr, who has been recently associated with Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell in exploration and philanthropic work in Labrador, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Dr. Grenfell and the Deep Sea Mission" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...where in the course of the summer he covered many hundred miles of seacoast and penetrated far into the interior using reindeer as pack animals. The expedition was mainly in search of young caribou, to be captured alive and brought to a post of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Mission at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, in the hope of introducting them into a large herd of domestic reindeer...