Word: orientally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americans are not indigenous aborigines possessed of a native cultural background, but come from all parts of Europe, or even Africa and the Orient," said Arthur Burkhard, assistant professor of German, speaking last evening before the Modern Language Conference on "The German Stage." By the fact that the Germans are a mature nation having a definite cultural background, Professor Burkhard explained the contrast between American and German stages, the fifty odd operas in Germany, opposed to but one in America, the many theaters in hundreds of German cities, while New York is the only city in America which...
When the Council re-convened it waited 20-minutes for China's Dr. Koo, while Chinese underlings explained to newshawks that "in-the Orient" such tardiness is "a sign of grave dissatisfaction." Unimpressed, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and French War Minister Paul-Boncour frankly dozed while Dr. Koo spoke for 90 minutes, threatening to revive China's boycott of Japanese goods, sarcastically observing. "If we believed everything the Japanese delegate told us we would be forced to believe that meek Japan is being devoured by ferocious China!" and hurling this challenge to the Council, "The time...
...five lone Baptists, an invitation was sent to the laymen of the Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, Dutch Reformed and United Presbyterian churches. After a preliminary fact-finding study, an Appraisal Commission headed by Engineer Scott and Philosophy Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard, set out to tour the Orient for nine months, returned to the U. S. last summer, began releasing its report to the public last month (TIME...
...until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars...
Shall Christian Churches in the missionary field be subsidized by home churches? No, says the Commission, "no church in any land will be robust and virile until it supports itself." Burma leads the Orient, with some 80% of the Baptist churches and 50% of the Methodist on their own feet. In China and Japan, about one-third are selfsupporting; in India even less...