Word: china
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brockman said China is the most misunderstood nation in the world. The Chinese are a masterful race. They have a literature considered by some thinkers to be not second to that of Greece, an educational system which is in some respects--notably in the education of public officials by the state--a model for others, and a religion which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking...
...meeting held in Phillips Brooks House last evening E. C. Carter '00, G. M. Fisher and F. S. Brockman, national secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association, in India, Japan and China, respectively, spoke on the changed political and social conditions in the Far East, the unusual opportunity now presented for educational and missionary work there, and the part that Harvard men may take in supplying this demand. R. H. Bollard '05, described the plan that has been formulated for arousing general interest in the situation in the East, for sending men from the University to do educational...
...gave many illustrations of the active support given the Christian Associations by army and other departmental officers, particularly in India. Forty-four men-four of them Harvard men--from the universities of Europe, the United States and Canada have charge of the establishment and conduct of Associations in India, China and Japan...
...Carter '00, G. M. Fisher and F. S. Brockman, National secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Associations of India, Japan and China respectively, will describe their work and its significance in the development of the East at a meeting to be held in Phillips Brooks House at 8.15 o'clock this evening. They will speak also of the political conditions in the Orient and the bearing upon them of the work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations of Japan, China and India. They will also point out the opportunities for service open to American college...
Holwill, C.U., Customs Service of China...