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...some reason Tokyo had summoned Okamura from north China, after an upstairs kick for his predecessor, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Best guesses why: 1) the advance was now approaching the Kuang-si mountain ranges, where Okamura would feel at home; 2) Hata's campaign, despite its success, was behind schedule...
...Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang Hsü period) into the Gregorian equivalent...
...when he was two years old. In 1908 that crafty old mummy the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who had ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang...
Leave of absence has been granted to W. L. Langer, associate professor of History, and to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, for the academic year 1932-33, in order that each may carry on research work under a grant from the Bureau of International Research. Kuang-Ti Mei, assistant professor of Chinese, will be absent for the academic year...
...Kuang-Ti Mei, who received his S.B. from Northwestern University in 1915, was appointed Assistant Professor in Chinese at Harvard, beginning September, 1929. He has been Instructor in Chinese since...