Word: india
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee made up of J.M. Groves '05, R.B. Gregg '07, and E.T. Wentworth '09, and will be in charge of E.G. Stillman '08, as business manager, and S. Ervin '08, as stage manager. The proceeds will go towards the salary of E.G. Carter '00, the Harvard representative in India...
...Grovig '05, R. B. Gregg '07, and E. T. Wentworth '09, and will be in charge of E. G. Stillman '08 as business manager, and S. Ervin '08, as stage manager. The proceeds will go towards the salary of E. C. Carter '00, the Harvard Mission representative in India...
Carter has been in India since 1902. There are now in the Empire under his supervision 114 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...
...been started also in behalf of the army, at Madras, for example, cheap suppers being served to an average of about 140 soldiers every night. Many of the associations provide facilities for tennis, etc., and some of the Association cricket and football teams are among the best in India...
...Ceylon, the Colombo association has a new building, and there as in many other places, the work is supported by Buddhists, Parsees, and Hindus as well as by Christians. Two prominent Hindus stated recently that "the Association restaurant has done more to break down caste in Southern India than any other agency, the Madras Railway not excepted...