Word: china
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dressed in a white Chinese suit, - a mandarin, Rev. Dr. Holland, and a few friends. The remains were enclosed in a casket, on top of which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith...
RECEPTION TO PRESIDENT ANGELL ON HIS RETURN FROM CHINA...
...left in a strange country almost friendless, with a family of six small children to provide for. It is not as yet known how much property Professor Ko has left for the support of his family, but probably enough to provide for them until their return to China. We understand that Mrs. Ko will remain in this country three months, and then leave for China with the embalmed body of her dead husband...
...residence, 717 Cambridge street, yesterday at 4.30 P. M., of acute pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. He was a native of Ningpo, and came to this country in 1879. He was appointed professor of Chinese at Harvard for three years, commencing Sept. 1, 1879. In China he belonged to a family of high rank, was a mandarin of the third grade and held several important government positions at Ningpo. He was a sub-prefect, and by imperial promotion was made prefect. Since he came to Cambridge he has had three pupils, one of whom has studied under...
...every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic like your physics as now taught, to give it character. Macte virtute, Puer. The faculty approve of cramming and fosters the system. So go in and cram. Perhaps you will dig through to China...