Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Continuing in Y. M. C. A. leadership, Dr. Mott became foreign secretary and then associate general secretary of the international committee of that organization, which latter position he holds at the present day. He has made four trips around the world in connection with this work, and has studied the student problem in many foreign countries...
During his present stay in America while directing the Red Triangle campaign, Dr. Mott has spoken before 50,000 people in seven cities in the space of four days...
...Lord '06, the University War Lecturer last evening, introduced his description of the Russia of today by a brief history of the events that have led to the present upheaval. The beginning of the trouble, he stated, dates back to 1861, when the freeing of the serfs opened a path for them into politics. Then the events of the early '90s gave Russia a large and important mass of middle-classmen who were anxious for political power. A gospel of discontent and protest was preached unceasingly and the tendency of Russia was to stretch everything beyond the proper limits...
...autocrats in power, or rather the bureaucrats around them, refused to make any concessions to the lower classes. When the revolution did come, however, the government collapsed in a most shameful way. It was obnoxious to the whole country and in spite of the awful conditions at present, practically no one is willing to have the autocracy again...
...tonight the University assembles to hear Dr. Mott's talk. We do not have to tell the 'student body how essential it is that every one be present; this is the most important assembly we have had since President Lowell addressed us at the outbreak of the War. It is not a question of trying to be present; the meeting must be attended in as great numbers as we can possibly muster. To hear Dr. Mott is the chance of a lifetime. Dr. Mott is an international figure: a man who knows the War and understands...