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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of foreign missions was first taken up, and interest in such missions was urged on all. Fifteen hundred young men in our colleges are pledged for missionary work abroad, but of these only three come from Harvard University, the largest of them all. Last year the association did nothing for foreign missions, but this year it is already planning for foreign work. There are to be weekly lessons devoted to different countries and the state of missionary work there. Each member of the class will be given topics to investigate and report...
...number of young men have become friendly visitors for the Associated Charities, and have met the poor in their won homes. Others have taken charge of Home Libraries for the Children's Aid Society,- small libraries placed in the homes of poor families, some boy or girl in the family acting as librarian, and the membership of a library including half a score of children from a single neighborhood who meet with their visitor once a week to exchange and talk about the books, read, sing, play games, save their pennies, etc. Another young man has visited a bed-ridden...
When vacancies are reported in the teaching force of the Prospect Union and the Social Union, men are assigned to these positions. The work done by a large number of men under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, in teaching at the Chinese Sundayschool and conducting services at the Sailors'Mission and other missions, offers an opportunity for such work to those who wish...
This Student Volunteer work, therefore, is simply a cooperative effort by young men at Harvard to meet the problem thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...
...interview, for the director to deternine what he would advise the student to do, and to prepare him for an intelligent start in the work recommended. His experience, temperament, tastes, special talents, studies, health, future profession and place of residence, require to be taken into account. If a young man offers to give more time than seems wise, he is discouraged from overtaxing himself; if he is too distrustful...