Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missions abroad. Cablegrams from Hungary, and Cairo, and Central Africa, from the Russian student prisoners, from Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture the immensity and vital importance to Americans of the problems of non-Christian countries...
Bishop McConnell of Denver tried to answer the other questions. "The hardest thing the field worker has to contend with," he said, "is the example of his own country. Every time that a man puts a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he is exploiting the raw products of Africa. We must put humanity above production, and see in Mexico 15,000,000 human beings and not merely copper, and oil, and the possibility of rubber plantations...
...bulk of the Harvard delegation, among whom the majority have no intention of going to the foreign field, is agreed that the Student Volunteer Movement is worthy of support and that the convention has been for good, not only because of the religious attitude which it inspired and the help it secured for work abroad, but also because of the approach which it suggested for social and economic problems, and especially because of its instigation to serious thought
...hundred and twenty-nine men signed up for track in the University and Freshman squads at the mass meeting in the Living Room of the Union last night. As twenty-five men who are daily reporting at the field were unable to attend the meeting, a total of about 145 will compete for the teams. But the need of more men was emphasized by all of the speakers of the evening...
...bring the sport back to its rightful position by making it popular with the undergraduates. They have pointed out that a track athlete is made at college; he isn't born a star; that there is a chance for anyone with ordinary physique to develop into a runner or field-event man. The few exceptional stars will often gain the first places; Harvard has had them, but what she has lacked are the second and third place men, those who win the meets; many of those men are here in College, but do not even know what the board track...