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Bishop Brent has been prominent in church affairs for many years. In 1901, he became bishop of the Philippine Islands, in which capacity he served until 1920. He gave the William Belden Noble lectures at the University in 1907. From 1908 to 1909 he was president of the International Opium Commission. In 1911 he went to the Hague where he remained until 1912 as president of the International Opium Conference...
...moral side, the development by the Chinese officials themselves of an anti-foot-binding crusade and the official outlawing of opium have been remarkable, and we have a contrast of a very significant sort between the action of the British government in refusing to agree to the total abolition of opium because British merchants held such a large stock of it already in store in Shanghai which must first be disposed of before the abolition should become effective, otherwise they would lose the several million dollars involved, and the action of the Chinese government, a pagan government if you will...
...Oberilin College. He has lectured on Political Science in Waseda University, Japan; on English in the Higher Commorcial College, Tokio, Japan; and on Political Science in the University of Chicago. In 1896 he was a secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs, in 1898 a commissioner to study the opium question, and is now the Director of the East and West News Burean...
...thrown open its meeting of tonight to all members of the University, and two speakers of note have been secured. Mr. Phillip Brown, professor of International Law at Princeton will speak on "The Turkish Capitulations," and Dr. Hamilton Wright, the chairman of the American Committee at the International Opium Conference, will talk of the work of that conference in getting practically all the nations to make uniform restriction of the opium traffic. The meeting will be at a dinner to be held in the north to were of Memorial Hall at 6.30 o'clock, and those intending to attend should...
...HYDE LECTURES ON FOREIGN MISSIONS. "The Present Crisis in the Chinese Empire. IV. Other Problems of Chinese Reconstruction, Educational and Religious; the Struggle against Opium." Rev. Arthur H. Smith, of Tientsin, China. Andover Seminary Building, Room...