Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans for an expedition to the northern Labrador coast. Starting from Boston on Tuesday, June 30, if conditions of the ice-packs in Northern Harbors are favorable, his erstwhile fishing-schooner, which will be called the "Ramah", will cruise up to Cape Chidley, which is north of the remotest mission settlement...
...leaving San Antonio that the unforeseen, the history-making climax of the cardinal's tour took place. From the Texas legislature had come a unanimous invitation to address the Texas Senate! True, in Texas as in Louisiana, Roman Catholics form the largest single denomination.* Memories of the early Mission Fathers underlie the Baptist and Methodist culture. But Texas voted against Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. And never before in history has a Prince of Rome been asked to address a State legislative body in the South. The affecting nature of these facts was clearly reflected upon Cardinal Hayes...
...committee, composed of P. M. Shelden '31, Julius Birge, vice-president of Brooks House, and T. L. Harris, University Adviser in Religion, will try to discover a mission similar to the Grenfell mission, in order that interest may be further aroused in Harvard University in social service in foreign lands...
...been suggested by the committee that Phillips Brooks House discontinue the sending of a man to teach at Roberts, Constantinople, and devote the money formerly used for that purpose to further the aims of such mission as may be selected...
...suitable recipient can be found, the sum of approximately $600, which is now being spent for the salary of the professor in Constantinople, will be devoted for aid in the field of mission service. It is also hoped that the group of Harvard students who have formerly devoted themselves independently to the Grenfell and other mission work in the summer time, may be induced to work as group on the mission finally selected by the committee...