Word: hu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States in 1940 and probably the world's leading authority on Chinese history and philosophy, is expected to arrive at Harvard within the next three weeks to take up residence for his course next term on "A History of Chinese Thought...
...Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States and outstanding philosopher and historian, will teach the history of Chinese thought, from 700 B.C. to the present, for two terms, beginning next November. Formerly professor of Chinese Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of Peiping, Dr. Shin is recognized as the leading figure in the Chinese literary renaissance...
...tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese moppets in revolutionary Hu-chow, just as the Chinese revolution was reaching the boiling point...
...commission has invited four eminent men to serve as foreign advisers: Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.; John Grierson, government film commissioner, Canada; Jacques Maritain, president, the Free French School for Advanced Studies; Kurt Riszler, professor of philosophy, The New School...
Last fall China reciprocated, sent a good-will mission to England to propagate the theme that the two nations should be "co-architects of peace." The missionaries: 52-year-old Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, onetime Minister of Education; editor-publisher Wang Yun-wu; Hu Lin, managing director of the powerful liberal newspaper Takungpao; educators Han Li-wu, Dr. Wen Yuan-ning. They met King George, Winston Churchill and other British bigwigs. Last week Dr. Wang Shih-chieh and Hu Lin arrived in the U.S., the others proceeded to Turkey. They were still making friends for China...