Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objective of encouraging the Chinese to study their own highly, developed civilization in the light of occidental methods of research and to interpret this civilization to the West. It will thus be made possible for Yenching University to offer graduate work to its own students and to those who come from other parts of China, and thus assist in strengthening the emphasis on Chinese culture which is one of the beneficial consequences of the recent nationalistic awakening among Chinese students. The work at Harvard will consist of courses in the Chinese language and literature, as well as in various aspects...
...Ecclesiastes there is both an excuse for the students dissoulty and for his at tendance at the morning service before the hour of trial-"much study is a weariness to the flesh" and-here is the text of the sermon-"remember thou thy Creator... while the evil days come...
...longer does the voice of God, as it is reputed once to have done, drum across the sky in the sound of storm or make a friendly whisper in the wilderness. Angels come to earth no more and the night is never filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone...
Long-haired preachers come out every night...
Last week contract time came again and again the Roosevelt Line sought to break into the jute trade. Nor did they come softly. They brandished before the eyes of shippers and importers of jute a freight rate card. That card offered to carry a ton of jute from Calcutta to New York or Boston for approximately $4. The rate had been $7.90 a ton. The Cunard-Brocklebank officials read the Roosevelt Line rate figures and, counting well on the loyalties of old clients, reduced their rate to $4.50 a ton. A rate...