Word: china
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arnold Arboretum has arranged to send Mr. E. H. Wilson, the well known English botanical collector, on a two-years' journey in central and western China to gather specimens of Chinese flora. Mr. Wilson is well qualified for this work, as he has already passed five years in China, and is well acquainted with the country and with its flowers...
Professor E. C. Moore will sail from New York this morning on his way to China, where he will spend his half-year's leave of absence in his work as a representative of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He left Cambridge for New York yesterday morning; in his start today he will sail for Havre on the steamship La Lorraine...
Professor Moore goes as a member of a committee of three chosen by the American Board to investigate the foreign missionary work which is being done in China. The other two members of the committee are Dr. Barton, the chief secretary of the American Board, and Dr. Warner of New York. During his stay Professor Moore will attend a conference of leaders of all denominations who are doing missionary work in the Chinese Empire, to be held in Shanghal on April 27. He was invited to attend also a conference of the World's Student Christian Federation at Tokyo during...
Committees of this kind are sent out nearly every year by the American Board to different countries to investigate the work which is being done in them under its general supervision. The work in China is largely educational, and corresponds to our ordinary grammar and high school courses. The hospitals and medical schools under the charge of the Board, however, are doing a very important work in giving the people medical care and in teaching them the proper regard for hygiene, which as a nation they lack...
Professor G. B. Palmer of St. John's College, Shanghai, will deliver an address on "Opportunities for a Layman in China" this evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and will be open to all members of the University. Professor Palmer, during his connection with St. John's College has become intimately acquainted with the problems of Chinese education and the wide field for aid which they offer to laymen from all parts of the world...