Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slowness of Mrs. Eliot's recovery from her recent illness has made it necessary for President Eliot to abandon the greater part of his western trip. According to the new itinerary, the engagements at Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco have been given up, and New York, Brooklyn and Baltimore are the only cities to be visited. Later on, however, the President and Mrs. Eliot hope to be able to visit the southern cities at which it was originally planned to stop on the way home. The President's place will be taken by Dean Briggs at the meeting...
Next he spoke of the duty of the American Church in the Islands. The natives are a people with Oriental ideas, who cannot be expected to accept at once our Christianity with its distinctly western spirit. The Christian missionaries must be able to get hold of the spirit of the people. The next duty of the Church in the Philippines is to the American population. There are, exclusive of the Army and Navy, about seven or eight thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have...
President Eliot has found it inadvisable to remain away from Cambridge for so long a time as was at first contemplated in the arrangements for his western trip. Accordingly he will leave for the east immediately after his engagements at St. Louis and will remain here until about the middle of March, allowing time enough to meet his engagements at San Francisco on March 17. From that point everything will be carried out as originally planned, so that the only change in the new itinerary is the omission from it of the north-west states as well as Columbus, Missouri...
...Summer School in Theology will be held in 1902 from July 1 to 18. The subject under discussion will be: "Some Current Problems in Theology." Lectures will be in attendance from the University of Chicago, Oberlin, North-western University and Oxford, as well as from the Harvard Faculty of Theology. About ninety students, representing twelve denominations, were in attendance at this school...
President Eliot has received an invitation from the Tokio Harvard Club to visit Japan during his western trip, but is unable to accept...