Word: foreigner
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Professor Moore was graduated from Marietta College of Ohio in 1877; from the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1884, and later studied at Berlin, Gottingen and other foreign universities. In 1886 he was appointed pastor at Yonkers, N.Y., where he remained for three years. Then he accepted the pastership of the Central Congregational Church, of Providence, R.I., which he held until he came to Cambridge as Parkman Professor of Theology...
...colonies, so that they are today most loyal to her. The Constitution has had a momentous influence upon every country in the world. Immediately after its framing, South and Central America and Mexico became republics, modelling their constitutions after that of this country. Another republican and spiritual influence upon foreign nations has been the formation of cosmopolitan clubs in the American universities, and the fraternizing in the United States of all nations. Indeed, America itself is a great cosmopolitan club...
...authorities warn us against treating government as a machine. Government is, however, not only a branch of knowledge, but a branch of action. Since ancient times advance in the theory of government has been made equal to the advance of science. By observing the practical operation of government in foreign countries and by studying man and his motives we can find the requirements of an upright judiciary. The operation of government used to depend on force alone. What that system lacked was the recognition of the individual character...
...Universities, and who have taken an active interest in helping to solve them. Among the more prominent speakers in the past have been Mr. J. R. Mott, associate general secretary of the International Y. M. C. A.; R. E. Speer, travelling secretary of the Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; Dr. H. S. Coffin, of New York; E. C. Carter '00; Bishop William Lawrence '71; Dr. John Kelman, of Edinburgh; Professor E. I. Bosworth, of Oberlin College; Rev. J. T. Stone, of Baltimore...
...have been engaged in work of this nature speak highly of the opportunities offered for studying foreign countries and manners. Any who are interested in such work can secure further information from the graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House...