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Bollard, as undergraduate secretary of the executive committee, stated that it was the belief of those inaugurating the action outlined above, that what is commonly termed foreign missions is little known and greatly misunderstood; that they believe foreign missions may be, and therefore ought to be, one of the strongest agencies for good...
...Brockman said China is the most misunderstood nation in the world. The Chinese are a masterful race. They have a literature considered by some thinkers to be not second to that of Greece, an educational system which is in some respects--notably in the education of public officials by the state--a model for others, and a religion which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking...
...more practical objections, some of us feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...
...winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place in men's hearts. Again, there is the other type of man, who while striving for his own definite purpose yet turns aside to give his energies to others, who finds his unselfish efforts often misunderstood, often rebuffed, but once in a while sees some great harvest spring from some little act or word, finding in the prodigality of return the reward for his own prodigality of service. This is the type of man that the teaching of Jesus approves...
...Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee recently held a meeting with the idea of clearing up several points in the code of rules drawn up last year. No radical changes have been made in the methods of play, but the rules as they now read can not be misunderstood. Rule 7 has been changed to read as follows...