Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The following article was written by a committee of six appointed by the Harvard Delegation to the Des Moines Convention as a report of that conference to the University:
What is best in our civilization? Our scientific knowledge surpasses that of other nations; let us share it with them and lift them out of ignorance and ill-health into fuller and freer lives. The story of the men and women who have given, not their money, but their lives...
The religious note dominated the conference. Strung across the ceiling over the stage of the Des Moines Coliseum in enormous letters was the motto: "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation." When the speakers of the afternoon--John R. Mott and Robert Speer--set forth the case for a...
A public expression in regard to the Student Volunteer Convention could hardly be more regrettable than the CRIMSON editorial which this morning greeted those of us who have just returned form Des Moines.
It can be conceded, indeed, to the delegates who returned Friday night, and for whom the CRIMSON claims to be spokesman, that they were genuinely disappointed. That a misunderstanding about the nature of the Convention became current is perhaps true, and, if so, the Volunteer movement may be in part...