Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exchanges in cultural matters eventually evolved into an actual exchange of students in the late 30's. Miss Alice M. Maginnis, a Radcliffe graduate and an instructor in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, won the first fellowship to Kobe from Radcliffe. She was spending the summer of 1937 in Japan and China as a member of the study group under Robert K. Reischauer of Princeton University and was to study in Kobe that September...
When fighting broke out in Shanghai and Reischauer was killed in a bombing, Miss Maginnis fled to Manila, where she shared the city's worst earthquake in 30 years. When she reached Kobe, she decided the year was not a propitious one for her art study and relinquished the fellowship...
...Radcliffe came Kei Yoshida, who taught in the Music Department at Kobe on her return home...
...Formerly Kobe College compared in rank with American junior colleges, but during the war the senior college department was entirely dropped. Now, in accordance with the plans for a new educational system, Japanese institutions of higher learning for women will be raised to the full standards of American women's colleges. Kobe is one of the five women's schools in Japan eligible for such a charter...
Student activities at Kobe are based somewhat on the American system. There is a student government association, and various clubs including a drama group, photography, political economy, French, and German clubs, and a group for the study of the Tea Ceremony...