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...China with 400,000,000 people, East Indies with 50,000,000, India with 318,000,000. Everywhere Standard Oil was first. In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say. Mei Fooy is the Chinese name for Standard Oil. Shouting Mei Fooy out loudly once saved the life of Lucy Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s sister-in-law, when in 1923 Chinese bandits captured her. It was the only phrase she knew; and the bandits, if they knew...
...your issue of Feb. 13 [LETTERS], that Chinese students and certain others resent the use of the term "Chinaman" as applied to them. But why? Their term is Tsoong Kok Nyung, which is, literally, Chinaman. And while in English they do not call us America-men, their term is Mei Kok Nyung which, again translated literally, is no more nor less than that. The pronunciation given is, of course, in Shanghai dialect, but the Mandarin pronunciation is not very different, and the meaning is exactly the same...
...CHEMISTRY B Th. at 11 Boylston 7 5 Th. at 9 Boylston 9 11 Th. at 10 Boylston 9 14hf* Th. at 7.45 A. M. Boylston 9 22 Th. at 1.30 Boylston 9 CHINESE 1 Th. at 10 Emerson E 2* Th. at 9 Widener D 3* Consult Mr. Mei CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1a Th. at 11 Sever 25 CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 53* Th. at 9 Sever 30 77* Consult Professor Ropes 79* Th. at 10 Sever 13 Seminary* Mon., Oct. 4, 4.30 Widener C COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 6a Th. at 11 Sever 5 7* Th. at 3 Emerson...
...true in regard to the subject matter involved and the manner in which it is presented. One may study as intensively as he likes any particular branch of philosophy, or his interests may go far afield to India under the guidance of Prof. Woods, or to China with Dr. Mei. With so diverse a possibility of stimulus it would be remarkable if one's intellectual curiosity were not aroused...
...that he loved her with all his soul; but, after all, there were other things to consider. ... A plague town, of course, was dangerous but not necessarily fatal if one took precautions; he advised no unboiled water, no lettuce. She returned to her husband, delighted to be going to Mei-tan-fu, where people were dying...