Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Roots has recently completed a series of lectures at the Episcopal Theological School, in which he traced the influence of western civilization on the political, economical, and religious history of China. he is about to return to the Orient, and tonight's meeting will be his last public talk in Cambridge before he leaves to continue his work on Church unity. He has been given a three years leave of absence from his diocese by the Board of Missions of the American Episcopal Church, and will devote this time to solidifying and perfecting the national Chinese Church...
...York College also has arraigned the traditional courses, seeking to avoid the present custom which makes the first and even second years of college mere continuations of preparatory school. In place of "courses of elementary grade" it requests broader subjects whose purpose is to "orient the student in adult thought." A course in the History of Mankind which should show his environment; a course in Human biology and psychology; a third in mathematical analysis; Literature taught as an aspect of life, and the inevitable technique of expression; such is the suggested plan for Freshmen...
...giving a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock today. This lecture is one of a series which is being delivered by the professor, in French, on Wednesday afternoons. His subject this afternoon will be "Le costume, les menus usages sociaux, et la vie quotidienne on Orient...
...Arabs and Their Historical Place in the Orient" was the subject taken by Professor E. F. Gautier of the University of Algiers in his speech in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture, which was in French, was the fourth of his series of seven lectures on the Near East, Professor Gautier is at present serving as French exchange professor to the University...
...Eddy graduated from Yale in the class of 1891. In 1896 he went to India to work among the students of the empire. From that time until 1915 he remained at work in the Orient. During the last nine years of this period, he was secretary of the Y. M. C. A. for Asia. From 1912 to 1913 he was with Dr. John R. Mott, conducting student meetings throughout Asia. During the Great War he was with the troops on the British, French, and American fronts...