Word: cantonments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word perhaps regarding that poor woman in Canton. Now supposing this to be a fact attested by unbiased witnesses, would it be fair--unless it can be proved that it is an everyday occurrence--to condemn a people wholesale from one instance? As well consider the recent case of the New England clergyman Richeson as typical and condemn the whole American society! And apart from that, are there not even in the civilized West instances of suffering--unrelieved suffering--so heartrending as to lead some of the most thoughtful of men to turn pessimistic and pronounce modern civilization...
...human mind are those of fraternity and of the conception of the Deity as a god to be worshipped in spirit. Neither of these conceptions generally exists in India, China, or Japan. The Eastern races have no conception of the brotherhood of man. For instance, if a woman in Canton were to fall in a river before the eyes of a hundred men, they would let her drown. Nor have these foreign peoples any spiritual conception of the Deity. Christianity has before it the task of carrying the spiritual conception of the Deity into foreign lands. With it will...
...Earle, Jr., '12, of Roxbury; J. F. Foristall '13, of East Boston; P. Gustafson '12, of Cambridge; G. R. Hale '12, of South Boston; F. W. Hodgdon '12, of Arlington; S. S. Kingman '12, of Newton Highlands; N. B. Lincoln '13, of Cambridge; W. J. MacKenzie '13, of Canton, O.; A. Nichols, 3d. '12, of Hathorne; C. S. Parker '12, of Woburn; B. E. Roberts '12, of Newton Centre; R. S. Simmons '13, of South Boston; J. W. White, of Roxbury...
...following men have been awarded the association football insignia: C. Chadwick '10, of Boston; L. H. Cushing '11, of Rockland; G. Fahnestock, Jr., '10, of Newport, R. I.; E. H. '11, of Canton, China; F. DeH. Houston '10, of Concord; F. R. Leland '10, of Florence, Italy; K. L. Lindsey '10, of Boston; C. O. Mason '10, of Boston; F. W. Paul, Jr., '11, of Villa Nova, Pa.; W. S. Seamans, Jr., '11, of New York, N. Y.; J. Swan '12, of Cambridge...
...Parsons graduated from Columbia University in 1879, and received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission...