Word: mission
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accustomed to the publicity our newspapers give to the private life of men in high positions and we pay very little attention to it. In the case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy...
...Belles-Lettres, Lt.-Colonel in the French Army and Editor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts" will lecture in English on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art" in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30. Professor Reinach is a member of a mission of the foremost French scholars recently arrived in this country in response to the requests of American universities to interpret to them the dominant elements of French culture. The lecture today will be open to the public...
Professor Coolidge is especially fitted for such a mission on account of his previous experience and training in Europe and more particularly in Vienna. After graduation here, he studied at the University of Berlin and at the Ecole des Science Politiques. In 1890 he was acting secretary to the American Legation in Petrograd, in 1892 was private secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge, Minister to France, and the following year became secretary to the American Legation in Vienna. He has long been prominent in diplomatic circles and was chosen as a member of the Taft party to the Philippines...
...there is another reason for the gratification that we feel at his appointment. From the time the French Military Mission arrived at Cambridge in the spring of 1917, until the United States Government took over the control of military training this fall, Captain Morize had a very large part in the preparation of the R. O. T. C. men for service in the war. Many a University man, trained under his experienced direction, now lies among the honored dead on French soil, or survives among the heroic soldiers of America. Consequently, we feel that he has helped the University...
...teaching staff of the University. The President and Fellows recently appointed him assistant professor of French Literature, and this was subsequently approved by the Board of Overseers. The appointment goes into effect as soon as Captain Morize is relieved of his duties in connection with the French Military Mission with which he first came to America in the spring...