Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Mission has received from Rev. George P. Knapp '87, a foreign missionary located in Harpoot, Turkey, a collection of foreign coins, mostly of Turkish and Greek countries, which have been put on sale at Phillips Brooks House for the benefit of the mission. In the collection as originally received there were 188 specimens, representing 113 different dynasties. The University library was given its choice of the coins to add to its collections, and the 75 which remained have been returned to Phillips Brooks House where they are now on sale. The coins are of different metals, the finest being...
...Japan, 8; England, 5; Mexico, 4; Republic of Argentina, 4; Germany, 3; Italy, 3; Australia, 2; Gosta Rica, 2; France, 2; Ireland, 2; New Zealand, 2; Russia, 2; Bulgaria, 2; India, 2; Asia Minor, 1; British West Indies, 1; Korea, 1; Peru, 1; Siam, 1; Columbia, 1; Sweden, 1; Turkey, 1; Syria, 1; Roumania, 1; South Africa...
...Library has received from Rev. G. P. Knapp '87 of Harpoot, Turkey, a remarkable collection of copper and silver coins from Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome...
...Wentworth '09 will lead the University devotional meeting in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The following men who have done missionary work in Brazil, Turkey, India, and Hawaii, respectively, will give brief descriptions of the nature of their work: E. B. Crooks 1Dv., A. H. Lybyer 1L., C. G. Hagberg Gr.Dv., O. P. Emerson Gr.Dv...
...Both Turkey and Great Britain are trying to absorb independent Arabia and the Bedoin tribes. Turkey at the same time is killing Arabian commerce by her misrule, and high tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem...