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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Often called "the foremost Chinese thinker of today" is Hu Shih, for nine years Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, and later Dean of the English Department, the first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken vernacular, vigorous editor for many a moon of the slightly radical Chinese weekly Endeavor, and frequently mentioned as likely to accept this portfolio or that in the Chinese Nationalist Government...
From the forthright pen of Professor Hu leaped, last week, a scorching, staggering indictment of China...
Team C at University Club E. M. Shelton (HU) '31 defeated L. Shapiro (UC). 15-10, 15-11, 15-13: R. O. Bishop (HU) '29 defeated E. S. Stimpson (UC) 15-8, 15-11, 12-15, 15-14; R. J. Coughlin (UC) defeated R. R. Stebbins (HU) '31, 15-9, 15-12, 14-8; Burton Richardson (HU) '29 defeated G. S. Goodspeed (UC), 11-15, 15-6, 13-15, 15-12, 15-9; Dudley Davis (HU) '31 defeated H. S. Cutler...
...Hu Shih, whose contribution to the symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...
...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...