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China's "Verdun," (with which Father Jacquinot had nothing to do), consisted last week of the heroic defense of the Woosung Forts, 16 miles from Shanghai proper. But there were altogether too many mysteries in connection with China's "Verdun"'?Oriental mysteries...
...Shanghai tragedy ended with a quick curtain which remained down for four hours. Two men tugged the curtain down, negotiated with Japanese and Chinese officers the four-hour truce. Tugger Father Jacquinot is Rector of Shanghai's St. Francis Xavier College, lost an arm at Verdun, France. Tugger Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hayley Bell, retired, is British, indomitable...
With his daughter, Lieut.-Colonel Bell rushed into the smoking, crumbling ruins of ''No Man's Land" (the Chinese Chapei District) and in rushed Father Jacquinot with 13 nuns. Other good people offered their help. By heroic efforts, working against time (four hours) they evacuated scores of wounded men and women, piling them hastily into six motor ambulances...
...Thayer's historical sketch is on the whole very entertaining and useful. In its preparation he has made copious use of Quincy's History of the University, of the "Harvard Book" of "College Words and Customs" and of a series of articles by the late Professor Jacquinot. A few mistakes are noticeable usually due to insufficient information concerning the most recent changes. Such is the statement that the Signet is a senior society drawing its members from those who do not belong to the Pudding, that forensics are required of seniors...
...started some years ago, and has received much life and vigor from Professor Cohn, who has had charge of it for several years. It contains about 606 volumes, including encyclopedias and dictionaries of all kinds, and five sets of Roussean, Moliore and Voltaire. A the death of Professor Jacquinot in 1883, the library received many valuable books from him. Among other interesting things there is an autograph letter of Lamartine, given last year. But the library is in much need of gifts of books or money, by graduates or undergraduates...