Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entertaining question was brought up at the Faculty meeting on Tuesday, and the decision which the Faculty passed will probably have considerable weight in attracting to the college students from Japan. S. Ikeda, Sp., petitioned that he might be allowed to enter college as a regular, substituting Chinese and Japanese for the Latin and Greek required at entrance. Mr. Ikeda had been a thorough student of the classical writers in his own language and of those in Chinese; in fact he had studied Japanese and Chinese classics just as students of this country study the Greek and Latin. The Faculty...
...third conference Mr. William Frederick Williams of the Harvard association will discuss the Need of Christian Teachers for the Government Schools of Japan...
There are fifty Yale graduates at Tokio, Japan, who will from an alumni association...
...miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell in Japan 150 years ago, and which has since been preserved in a temple as a relic...
...weekly meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association was held last evening in the rooms of the society in Lawrence Hall. The subject of the evening was "Japan" as described by native Japanese now studying in the University. The speakers were Messrs. Kishkimoto, S. Miyoski, and Kozaki, who described very intelligently the government, social customs, and general improvement of the country since the revolution of 1868 when the descendents of the original dynasty were restored to the kingdom. They also dwelt at length upon the gratifying results of missionary work in Japan, urging Harvard men to enter...