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...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
Groups which claim not over one representative apiece include: People's Church Interdenominational), Lingnan Community Church, Lingnan, China, Mennonite, Dissenter, Evangelical Reformed, Swedenborgian, First Brethren Church, Temple Emanuel, Covenant Church, Eastern Orthodox, Sun-worshipper, St. George Church, Syrian Orthodox Church, Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, Humanism, Moravian, Plymouth Brethren, the Reformed Church, and the United School of Christianity...
According to an announcement made last night by Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, two undergraduates, Jack D. Andrews '39, of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, of Madisonville, Kentucky, have been named as Harvard scholars to Lingnan University...
...Lingnan, at which Marshall taught for three years, is situated in Canton, China. There are now 31 American students there including four from Harvard...
...scholarship plan, put into effect two years ago, has aided in opening the university up for Americans. On returning after three years in the Orient, Harvard men are allowed to resume study in their respective classes, receiving credit for the work done abroad at Lingnan University towards their degrees...