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...Harvard are Captain W. R. Daniels, who has been conducting Military Science 3, a course on advanced gunnery and field tactics; and Captain B. H. Perry who has been teaching topography and gas engineering in Military Science 2. Both men leave Cambridge this year under the provisions of the "Manchu Act", a regulation of the War Department requiring every officer in the Regular Army to pass at least one year out of five in active service with enlisted troops. Captain Daniels has spent the last four years on the teaching staff of the University Unit, to which he was appointed...
...chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
...campaign against the Manchu dynasty was intensified and from foreign soils he led the Young China Party in its ultimately victorious battle against the Emperor. In 1911 the storm of Revolution at last began to discharge its lightning; Dr. Sun hurried to China, became first Provisional President. On Jan. 5, 1912, the Chinese Empire became the Republic of China: the Manchus had been deposed, but the six-year- old boy-Emperor was allowed to keep his title for life and the Government promised to grant him a yearly subsidy for the same period...
...originally was anti-dynastic, and had nothing to do with pugilism in spite of some " peculiar calisthenic exercises." At the end of the 19th Century the society came under the influence of the Empress Dowager, who persuaded them that the foreigner and his. spheres of interest-and not the Manchu dynasty-was responsible for the ills of China, and incited them to fight the invaders of their land-hence the Boxer Rising...
...Hsuan-Tung, or Pu-Yi, the Boy Emperor and present 'head of the Manchu dynasty, abdicated...