Word: china
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speeches on "What we did in China, Honolulu, India, or the Holy Land" were barred to the two Welds and Blanchard, while Luce was forbidden to give any of his experiences as "The Yankee who has been the farthest into Afghanistan...
...University of Texas has received a library of 38,000 volumes referring to China, valued at nearly $150,000, from Tank Kee, a Chinese lecturer...
...Roots Gr., spoke next and related some of the facts about China. There are now but 1400 missionaries in the country which contains the largest population in the world. This is at the rate of one for every 250,000 people. To realize what this means let one imagine the state of things if there were only two ministers in all Boston...
...University of Texas has received a library of 38,000 volumes referring to China, valued at nearly $150,000, from Tank Kee, a Chinese lecturer...
...something of a relief to turn from the tension of "The Brazen Android" to the portion of a hitherto unpublished journal of Richard Henry Dana, which describes a voyage on the Grand Canal of China. The most charming part of the paper is that where Mr. Dana gives us a picture of the exquisite courtesy and politeness of a certain Chinese gentleman named U-u. This U-u showed a characteristic bit of Chinese courtesy-which might be recommended to Harvard men-when, declining to smoke more than one or two puffs of a cigar given him by a friend...