Word: heng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty. The emperor presented it to one of his favorite governors in the year 1810, and it remained in China until the Tercentenary, when Dr. J. Heng Lin '09, of Nanking, purchased it as a gift for Harvard, in recognition of the educational contributions of America's oldest college...
...this night, Madame Chiang revealed the world ideal that drives her. She spoke of two concepts, expressed in Chinese as ho-tsung (concerted effort), and lien-heng (imperialism), called up from China's tapestried past a lesson for the world of tomorrow...
More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom...
Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...