Mott
Mott names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Mott JOHN RALEIGH, General Secretary of Young Men's Christian Associations
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN RALEIGH, General Secretary of Young Men's Christian Associations; born in 1865, graduated from Cornell University in 1888. The same year he became chairman of the executive committee of the Students' Volunteer Movement, an undertaking which has occupied most of his life. This movement was designed to stimulate the desire for Christian service among college students, and under Mott's leadership it became a deeply religious and effective force. In 1895 Mott became general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation. Mott has always been deeply interested in the foreign missionary work of the Y. M. C. A. and this made him a figure of national and international importance. In August, 1916, President Wilson appointed him on the Joint Commission to settle the differor a grease. Various types of friction ences between the United States and Mexico, and the next year the President made him a member of the mission to Russia which was headed by Elihu Root. During the war with Germany Mott's energies were given to directing the great work of the Y. M. C. A. for the help of the American army and navy.
Mott LUCRETIA, an American reformer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUCRETIA, an American reformer; born in Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 3, 1793. Early became interested in the movement against slavery. In 1818 she joined the Friends. In 1833 she assisted in the formation of the American Anti- Slavery Society, and in 1840 went to London as its delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention. She was one of the four promoters of the Woman's Rights Convention in the United States. She died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 11, 1880.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught John R. Mott in 1921 in mid-career, as the Y.M.C.A.'s wartime organizer; he went on to help found the World Council of Churches and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, dying in 1955 at 89. The student missionary movement he led, once a mass enterprise on American campuses, has shrunk drastically, while the ecumenical machinery he built outlasted it. Lucretia Mott's entry is accurate as far as it goes but stops short: she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 after being seated behind a curtain at the London anti-slavery meeting of 1840, and she is now remembered chiefly for that. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in August 1920 just as Collier's went to press, is not mentioned; a marble monument to Mott, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was installed in the U.S. Capitol in 1921.
Written for this edition, 2026.