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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to thrones. Twice before has he been proclaimed Emperor of China. The first time was 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...
...Emperor Hsuan Tung. Next day the Dowager Empress died suddenly. Prince Chun became Regent and the Emperor Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that the Republican Government promised him but never paid...
...Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...general I should say that the small groups of men who leave the Houses to live in various other quarters around the Square will have a good influence on the House Plan," said a former overseer of Harvard in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "It will act as a check on the management of the various Houses and will keep the prices down and the service good...
...other hand there is a percentage of students who always have to be going against things which are required of them: they can't live happily under definite rules. The fact that this type are allowed to withdraw from the Houses removes a lot of comment which would arise otherwise against any steadfast regulation requiring all men to live in Houses...