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...recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...
...have been making additions to the valuable Manchu collection," revealed C. L. Hen, who is acting librarian during the acsence of Dr. A. Kaiming Chiu. He also pointed out that the unique ornaments on top of the library shelves were newly acquired from Tibetan monasteries where they formerly had great religious significance...
...purpose the conducting of research, instruction, and publication in the culture of China and other Asiatic countries. Branches are maintained both at Harvard and Yenching University in Peiping, China, and the Chinese Library at Harvard is supported by it. Under the direction of A. H. Chiu, librarian, the collection has been increased from $4,526 volumes in Chinese and 1,668 in Japanese in 1927 to approximately 80,000 in Chinese and 4,200 in Japanese at the present time...
Other members of the Faculty who will be absent are: R. L. Hawkins '03, associate professor of French; W. C. Ford lecturer on Historical manuscripts; Daniel Sargent '12, instructor in history and literature; L. S. Mayo '10 Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Alfred Kai-Ming Chiu, instructor in the Chinese language and literature; W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor of history; and Dr. A. C. Redfield '13 assistant professor of Physiology...
...with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist of many more. Mr. Chiu in illustrating this fact said that 'Harvard' is represented in Chinese by two characters. The word is formed by transliteration, and curiously enough the translation of the characters is "laughing Buddha...