Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them with being "foreign devils." One of them writes: "I wish I could return to dear, philanthropic New England, where teachers are better than mothers, where friends are better than sisters, and classmates more agreeable than brothers." - [Cambridge Tribune...