Word: calcutta
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After Mr. Carter was graduated from the University, he held the position of graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House for two years. At the end of this term he left for India, where he took up his residence in Calcutta, to act as national secretary in India for the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been supported largely by the Harvard Mission. Last year he was recalled to work among the student associations of colleges in North America...
Against one "Black Hole of Calcutta" we wish especially to protest--the chemistry lecture room in Boylston Hall. Lack of proper ventilation, combined with the action of chemicals, makes the atmosphere unendurable long before the hour has elapsed. The course that meets here is necessarily large, for it is required for further study in several departments. It is an initiation to the Medical School that should render its sufferers absolutely impervious to disease. Possibly with more stimulating and less drugging of the senses, Chemistry 1 would not distribute each year its high proportion of wretched marks...
...missions and schools of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He left Cambridge last January and proceeded by way of the Suez Canal to India, where he spent four weeks. Here he visited Agra, Delhi, and Benares, as well as the principal cities of the coast. At Calcutta Professor Moore had an opportunity to observe the work of E. C. Carter '00, who is at the head of the Harvard Mission in India and who is travelling secretary for India of the International Y. M. C. A. He says that everywhere he received confirmation of the success...
...general and student Young Men's Christian Associations, with an aggregate membership of nearly 10,000 men and boys. The work is intensely practical and strong associations with gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, restaurants, and educational as well as religious work, have been developed in the great cities, such as Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Bangalore, and Rangoon. The Calcutta Association has 12 secretaries, 1100 members, and 8 branch buildings for Europeans, Indians, and Eurasians, including a boys' building and four hotels for students. The board of Directors includes the Governor of Bengal, the Mayor of Calcutta, the Canon of the Anglican Cathedral...
...honor of Mr. J. N. Farquhar who, as general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Calcutta, has been intimately associated with E. C. Carter '00, the Christian Association's representative in India, the Harvard Mission has arranged a small dinner which is to be given in the committee room of the Union this evening at 6 o'clock. Mr. Farquhar is a graduate of Oxford who has been in this country on his furlough, and is to sail this week on his return to India. R. H. Oveson 2L. will preside at the dinner, and Mr. Farquhar...