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Leave of absence has been granted to W. L. Langer, associate professor of History, and to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, for the academic year 1932-33, in order that each may carry on research work under a grant from the Bureau of International Research. Kuang-Ti Mei, assistant professor of Chinese, will be absent for the academic year...
...paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called off. The city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking Theatre, largest cinema in Shanghai. It fizzled. A nervous Chinese sentry shot and killed Dr. Alexander Proges, Austrian manager of American Express Co. (known to Chinese taxi drivers as Mei-gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep...
When asked what he thought of the half dozen students, who are giving up their college work, and returning to China, Professor K. T. Mei, of the Chinese Department described the movement as being an emotional one, and believed that the Chinese at Harvard would take a more sensible stand. Although the students now at Harvard are naturally as outraged at the Japanese aggrandization as their friends at home, the general feeling as expressed by P. C. Kuo, member of the Chinese Students' Club, is that the students can be of more use here explaining what is happening in China...
Chief public work of First Lady Mei-ling is her orphanage for the children of soldiers killed in her husband's battles. Asked about joining President Chiang in the march, she gently said: "Yes, I have often thought of that, often! But it has never seemed wise to put both our lives in jeopardy at the same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum...
...Soong Dynasty," most potent Chinese family, includes the First Lady's brother, Finance Minister T.V. Soong, and her sister, Mme H. H. Kung, wife of the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius. Split off from the Soong Dynasty by a family & political quarrel is Mei-ling's sister Mme Sun Yatsen, Communist-sympathizer, widow of the late, great Dr. Sun who founded the Chinese Republic...