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...step is hailed as of great significance in promoting friendly relations between the United States and China. President J. Leighton Stuart, of Yenching University, here on a visit, predicts that the organization in general supervision of the work, called the Harvard Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, will become "a strong factor in cementing the friendship between the United States and China, which is of such critical importance in the political future of the whole Pacific basin. The Chinese themselves have recently been awakened to a new interest in their national culture. A better understanding of this culture by the outside...
...Getchell won from Paul Birdsall '20, N. D. Fradd won from Mitchell Gratwick '22, J. P. Baker Jr. '15 defeated Delmar Leighton '19 and W. I. Nichols '26 defeated H. W. Clark '23. D. J. Kelly won from G. G. Benedict '23 by default...
Analyzing the upheavals in China as the inevitable result of the awakening of a national consciousness among the young Chinese, and an effort to throw off feudal bonds, Dr.J. Leighton Stuart, president of Yenching University, said before the Liberal Club last Saturday that the only hope for China was a preservation among the students of a confidence in the possibility of ultimate deliverence of their nation...
...Leighton Stuart, President of Yenching University, near Pekin, China, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today. The general topic of his speech will be "China...
...Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia, talkative New York Republican, had a dinner engagement with U. S. Representative William Leighton Carss of Minnesota, at Duluth. The day came and Representative La Guardia was still in New York. Representative La Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...