Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week from today will not run in the Intercollegiates. From today's run two more Varsity men will be picked to make up the full quota for the triangle meet next week. The eight so far on the team are Roswell Brayton '39; John W. Erhard '38; George P. Gardner '39; Alexander C. Northrop 38; Frank L. Porter, Jr. '40; Francis M. Rivinus, Jr. '38; W. Pen Tuttle, Jr. '40; William H. Wright...
...John R. Clark '38, Laurence Curtis '16, Roger W. Cutler '11, John H. Dean '34, F. Stanton Deland '36, Charles Devens '32, Henry T. Dunker '25, Samuel M. Felton, 3rd '13, W. Cameron Forbes '92, George S. Ford '37, James J. Gaffney '37, William F. Garcelon '95, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Robert H. Hallowell '96, Huntington R. Hardwick '15, S. Trafford Hicks, Jr. '38, Charles G. Hutter, Jr. '38, Delmar Leighton '19, T.. Ferguson Locke '38, Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, Alexander C. Northrop, Jr. '38, George Owen, Jr. '23, Eliot T. Putnam, Jr. '30, William T. Reid...
...Gardner said that the visible strengthening of the Chinese government during recent years has almost daily reduced Japan's chances of success in any trial of arms. Chinese resistance at Shanghal in 1932 was already an ill omen for Japanese aspiration of the continent. The repection of 1936 of Japanese demands for an advisory and supervisory position in relation to the Chinese army and government showed that China was aware of its growing power...
...speech, "China Faces Japan," Gardner traced the historical background of the two countries and cited their present aims. "China in national institutions," he explained, "was forced on Japan after 1854 by her indefensible geographic situation. Japan in 1872 sent to the United States and Europe the important Iwakura Embassy which presented the following year an epoch-making report on Japanese policy in the modern world. It recommended that (1) Japan modernize her institutions; (2) that she arm herself in the western fashion; and (3) that she await the pre-occupation of the Western powers to use her now armament...
Modernization in China was a failure because of the country's size, and her difficulty with domestic revolts. In 1894 war with China over her shadowy suzerainty in Korea gave Japan a chance to prove her military superiority. The obvious mastery of western technique, Gardner said, by a formerly despised oriental neighbor went far to shake Chinese scholars from an attitude of complacent self-satisfaction...