Word: mission
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Special interest in the missionary work is manifested this year by the University on account of the fact that M. R. Edwards M.'08 is in China looking over the conditions in order to present a definite project on establishing a Harvard Mission there...
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Although the work of the undergraduate committee of the Harvard Mission during the past year has been more quiet than usual, the year has, nevertheless, been one of missionary interest. At the first meeting of the committee held last fall it was voted that inasmuch as Mr. E. C. Carter '00 had returned to this country, the committee devote its efforts towards raising money to send a man to China to investigate conditions for establishing a Harvard School of Medicine. The plan for establishing such a school was first presented by Mr. M. A. Edwards...
...Martin Edwards, who was graduated last year from his four-year course at the Harvard Medical School and who was instrumental in drawing up plans for the proposed work in China, is able to undertake such an investigation and will be ready to sail in July. The Harvard Mission is endeavoring to raise the $1500 necessary for his expenses, and is relying upon graduate and undergraduate support. As it is late in the year it will be impossible for the undergraduate committee of the Mission to make a complete canvass, but contributions of from 25 cents of $10 are none...
...make preparations for the proposed school it has been thought necessary to send Dr. Edwards to China this summer, and the Harvard Mission has undertaken to raise as much as possible of the necessary expenses among the graduates and undergraduates. Considered from every possible view-point, we cannot conceive of a philanthropic cause much more worthy of eliciting the hearty support of all Harvard...