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...Deep-voiced, bushy-browed John R. Mott (Cornell '88) typifies the 20th Century Christian soldier. For 32 years he headed the executive committee of the Student Volunteer Movement, collegiate missionary enterprise that set out in 1888 to evangelize the world in its generation. From 1895 to 1920 he also functioned as general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation. Since 1920 he has given most of his time to the latter as its chairman. It was he who was most grieved when bubbles of soldier-criticism welled up against the Y. M. C. A.'s service abroad during...
...given to the world by him from the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan. The significance of the gift lies in the fact that Christian unity has hitherto been one of the most orated and one of the least supported ideals in Christendom. Great churchmen like Bishop Brent, Cardinal Mercier, John R. Mott, have given much of their lives to it, but few philanthropists* have given their fortunes to it. Now there is money, as well as voices, to propagate the ideal...
...John R. Mott, famed holder of many an honorary degree, extensive traveler, tireless international social worker, presented $4,232,467.01 worth of budgetary reports, as General Secretary of the National Council. Once he declined to be U. S. Minister to China; his acceptance of other responsibilities has been without reserve. Sonorously he entoned a list of 30 countries in which a major portion of the association's funds were spent last year...
...Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing Prison and the leading prison reformer in the country, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight at Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...
...Thomas Mott Osborne '84, famous prison reformer, will speak in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock Monday night. His subject will be "The Purpose of Prisons" and the lecture will be open to all members of the University...