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...unidentified Chinese was reported last week to have shot through the heart the Rev. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, superintendent of the U. S. Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, in southwestern Shantung Province. Details were completely lacking due to the chaotic conditions produced in Shantung by the Civil War (TIME, April 30) which continued last week to centre around Tsinan, the capital of the province. When told of the murder of Dr. Seymour, his daughter Ada, said at Milwaukee, last week: "I have been strengthening myself for some time to receive such news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Foul Murder | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Troubled and chaotic conditions due to rising nationalism and increasing consciousness of race and class-oppression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Jerusalem. | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...situation of education is little better than chaotic, and there is a lack of a coherent system of schools in this country," was the statement made by Professor H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN SCHOOLS FLAYED BY HOLMES | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...innocent spectator. In its entirety it left much the same impression that a mid-year examination wrestled with but not downed, leaves. Certainly it is no place for the student who has an examination the next day, as it requires at least 24 hours to recover from the chaotic mass of folly presented. Nor will the weary student trying to recover from the effects of an examination have his tired brain solaced. The 1928 edition of the "Follies" at this stage of its short life is a stimulant rather than a drug...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

Much condolence is due the feminine voters of Bryn Mawr who have survived the gruelling and chaotic procedure of the May Day polling which, with its party politics and agitation, has evidently kept the college girls in a state of hectic suspense and turmoil. However, appearances seem to indicate that it is not the voters who bear the brunt of the burden of electoral vicissitudes. For from an account of the recent proceeding at Bryn Mawr in The College News it would appear that every May Day queen pays a price for her crown in shoe leather if nothing else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD WORK | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

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