Word: china
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students have been received at Wesley College from all the states and territories excepting Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico. They have been received from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Mexico, Chili, Turkey, India, Siam, China, Japan, South Africa, Micronesia, and Sandwich Islands. The number of students registered the present collegiate year is five hundred and one. Over eighteen hundred have registered since the college opened. [Wesley Courant...
Arrangements have been made for the establishment of an American college in Shanghai, China...
...China and crockery, from Jones, McDuffee and Stratton...
...Dear me," said a good old lady on Fifth street the other evening, "how this craze for china is growing. Here's a New York club that is paying $3,000 for a pitcher...
...reasons for this may be various, but one of them undoubtedly is that Canton is a great seat of learning, and the literati of China have always been the most determined opponents of foreigners. It is at Canton, indeed, where the greatest examining University of China is to be found. A Chinese lad in the south of the empire, determining to be distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take...