Word: mission
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eight o'clock the deans of the various university graduate schools met with the British Educational Mission at the Hotel Somerset. At the same time an informal smoker was held at the Harvard club...
...fallen heroes of five nations have entrusted to our hands the torch of battle and look to us to carry it on to victory. That we may not fail in this great mission, let us resolve to do all that is in our power, whether the task be great or small, to train ourselves for the work ahead. The man who will most surely succeed in the army or navy and who will most efficiently discharge his obligation to his fellowmen will be one who neglects not small things in preparation for things that are great; who trains himself...
...direction of 28 military instructors, 12 of whom were reserve officers from Camp Devens detailed by the War Department. It consisted of thorough instruction in all branches of infantry drill and warfare and the liason between infantry and other branches of the service. Lieutenant Morize of the French Mission had charge of instruction in the new formations and dispositions for attack and defense. On August 8 the Corps carried out its final manoeuvre on the Camp Devens combat ground before General Crozier and President Lowell. At Cambridge a review took place for Brigadier-General Ruckman...
These men had something more to say to the trade-unionists of Great Britain and France than that organized labor in the United States is pledged to the last man and the last dollar in support of the war. Their mission abroad comprehended also the assurance to working-men everywhere that there is no sympathy in this country with the extremists and visionaries, deriving their inspiration chiefly from German sources, who hope by an inconclusive peace to instigate a war of classes and repeat on a larger scale the follies which in Russia have protrated industry and for the time...
...Labor Mission has spoken with authority, and, according to all accounts, its message has been received approvingly and hopefully by most of the workingmen of Great Britain and France, who, like our own, see no prospect of justice or progress in autocratic militarism or in intolerable anarchy. --New York World...