Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boone is different in many ways. It is located in the very central part of China, about 650 miles up the Yangize River in the city of Wuchang. It is a smaller school than St. John's and has about 450 students but it offers the advantages of a small college. For many years it has had a very famous library and library school which has supplied librarians for most of the libraries of China. A large gymnasium has been recently completed. Unlike Shanghai Wuchang is a truly Chinese city with no foreign concessions or foreigners except missionaries and teachers...
...River from Wuchang and easily reached by ferry is Hankow, a city of foreign concessions, where there is a considerable number of American and British business men and most of the advantages of western life may he had. Boone has recently united with some other schools to form a Central China University and has started on a period of expansion...
Technical matters of administration, moreover, are often antiquated and bound in red tape. The League serves as a central clearing house where methods operating in different cities are compared, and where the city administrators come in contact with the highest academic thought upon their problems...
...York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...
...Jesus was not a systematic teacher but a prophet. The central idea of his teaching was the Kingdom of Heaven. He does not seem to have been preoccupied with the doctrine of the Fatherhood...