Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being, and the second...
...subject of the meeting was the opportunities for mission and philanthropic work in and about Boston. W. W. Comfort led the meeting, and G. Gleason '97, E. Von Mach Gr., H. K. Stanley '97 and B. Barton '98 spoke on the various missions with which they are connected. A Chinaman from the Chinese missions spoke in behalf of his countrymen. Twenty-two men were elected to membership and a number of new names were proposed...
Every man will have one Chinaman assigned to him, for whom he is solely responsible. The teaching is slow and sometime tedious in spite of the interest shown by the pupil and needs a patient teacher who will make it a point not to miss a single meeting. But when the apparently dull pupil has once mastered the elements of the language, then the progress is rapid, the Chinaman soon takes up the Bible, and well prepared by patient love of his teacher, he is readily led to grasp the truths of the Christian religion...
There are surely more than forty men in Harvard University ready to spend two hours every Sunday afternoon in this work. Will they please all send their names to the chairman of the committee, E. von Mach, 18 Bowdoin street, who will find a Chinaman for every man who applies...
...band of the celebrated Brownies. Here one may see their fairy favorites in real flesh and blood, and hear them speak in real Brownie language. Each Brownie has been provided with an entirely new wardrobe, and the Dude is the proudest of them all. The Policeman, the Student, the Chinaman, the Twins, and, in fact, all of the familiar family are in the band. Portions of fairyland have been brought along with them, so that every one can see precisely how the Brownies live, what they do from day to day, how they overcome trouble, and it will be especially...