Word: china
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tank Kee is lecturing on China at various colleges. No Tank...
...reports of the treatment of the Chinese students, which for some time have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...
...infant child of the late Prof. Ko Kun Hua died at Cheyenne, Wyoming, yesterday, while the family was on its way to San Francisco. The body will be taken to China...
Examinations have come and gone, and the fortunate ones who have "crusted" the Profs. in the various studies may be seen at any hour celebrating their success. Next week President Angell, accompanied by his family, returns from China where he has been discharging the duties of United States Minister for the last two years. Preparations have been made by faculty and students for his reception, but as yet Dame Rumor is responsible for such details as are known to any save the favored few. The knowing ones announce that Prexie will be met at Detroit by acting President Frieze...