Word: mott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the Indianapolis Convention, concerned primarily with foreign missions, have now been definitely arranged. At the convention will be many prominent men and several excellent speakers, among whom are Dr. John R Mott, general secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and Dr. Richard E. Speer, chairman of the Federsted Council of Churches of Christ...
...from a national headquarters at Dresden, cooperative stores, student kitchens, employment bureaus are operated. And there are loan banks to which all who can contribute, and from which the most gifted students, regardless of social status, receive money without interest during the months before their final exams. John R. Mott, through the World's Student Christian Federation, has been largely instrumental in the success of these self-help activities. The Society of Friends (American Quakers) have cooperated...
...University Chess Club Will meet the Oxford Chess Club of Lynn this evening at Lynn, when the respective teams will engage in a 20 board match. K. O. Mott-Smith 1L., who is said to be the best college chess player in the country, will play the first board for the University...
...Lucretia Mott, eloquent Quakeress, attending the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Western New York, visited her sister at Auburn. At Seneca Falls, ten miles away, was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another gifted young advocate of women's rights. They had met before at an anti-slavery conference in London. Now, being so near together, they met again?and decided to hold a convention...
...first "Woman's Rights Convention " assembled, and James Mott, husband of Lucretia, was asked to preside. Several women spoke, or rather read their speeches. A " Decclaration of Sentiments " was passed?an imitation of the Declaration of Independence?beginning: "That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause...