Word: mission
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Brooks House Association in reviving the Harvard Mission of former years to meet present needs is most timely. In its new form, the Harvard Mission is in effect a standing committee of Phillips Brooks House, organized solely for the purpose of finding reconstruction jobs for members of the University who are interested in the chance of going over seas this summer...
...this burden which the Harvard Mission seeks to take from the shoulders of the undergraduate or graduate student who sets out to be of service overseas. How far the Mission succeeds will depend entirely on conditions in Europe. But that it will obtain openings for at least a few Harvard, volunteer workers seems certain. It seems also to be the only available agency hereabouts which is capable of furnishing Harvard, volunteer workers seems certain. It seems also to be the only available agency hereabouts which is capable of furnishing Harvard men with well thought out information on this subject...
...been announced by the Phillips Brooks House Association that the Harvard Mission has been reorganized, and will take up its work on a new basis. This organization has formerly supported many University men in the mission field, but owing to the present needs, it will this year place special emphasis on reconstruction work, while going on with its pre-war duties at the same time...
Captain Melvin Holmes Leonard '19 has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in action at Soissons, July 18, 1918. He had been previously awarded the Croix de Guerre with a citation for volunteering for a dangerous mission in the attack at Vaux, near Chateau-Thierry, last July...
...whence is his authority derived? From the University Faculty. He must be made a member of this body with rank appropriate to the importance of his mission. Note that he is in charge of the physical up-building of not eleven, or nine, or eight men, but of three thousand odd. --Yale News...