Word: nanyang
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...whom "all the world is home." But last week Author Lin was packing up his books and belongings to return to the Far East. He not only has an important new post to fill but a mission to perform. As the first chancellor of Singapore's new Nanyang (South Seas) University, he will be in a position to strike a blow at Red China's campaign for the minds of Asia's non-Communist students...
...leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars (about $7,000,000 U.S.). Swarms of engineers, surveyors and carpenters were already hard at work on its buildings...
...When Nanyang opens in the fall of 1955, it will have only three colleges: arts, science and business. But eventually, its founders hope it will be an intellectual center for all of free Southeast Asia. With a cosmopolitan faculty, Chancellor Lin and Sponsors Tan and Lien are agreed that the student body should be interracial. As such, they think, Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina...
Died. Dr. John Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...
...present the bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...