Word: china
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...Rockhill, director of the Bureau of the American Republics at Washington, will give an illustrated lecture on "Travels in the Borderland of China and Thibet," in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum, Friday evening, February 26, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Harvard Travellers Club. The lecture will be open to the public...
...purpose of the trip was to make a botanical exploration of the countries visited, especially Siberia and northern China, and to arrange for the shipment of native trees and shrubs to the Arboretum. Professor Sargent was accompanied by his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir h.'96, the distinguished naturalist...
...route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence he returned by rail to Moscow and St. Petersburg...
...Ralph D. Paine Yale '94, spoke last evening in the Union, giving a description of his adventures as a war correspondent, in Cuba and China. Two years before the recent Spanish War he took part in a filibustering expedition to Cuba, during which he had many exciting and humorous experiences. After describing these, he told how, during the war, he managed to send the cable about the sinking of the Merrimac, and how he succeeded in landing in Havana, where he was arrested and not released till be promised to discontinue his newspaper work in Cuba. Mr. Paine then told...
...Paine has travelled extensively as a war correspondent in Cuba, the Phillippines and China, and has had many interesting experiences, one of which--in connection with a filibustering expedition to the Phillippines--is described in an article in the last number of "Outing." This expedition Mr. Paine will mention tonight in his talk, to which only members of the Union will be admitted...