Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trade Draws U. S. to Orient...
...first of a series of mission forum groups for discussion of the countries of the Orient will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. The purpose of this course of lectures is to give University men an idea of life in the countries of the Orient, of the Oriental point of view, and of the opportunities for Christian work there...
Teaching in China is a service not only to China but also to the teacher himself. A trip to the Orient and living there in contact with a civilization so nearly the opposite of our own tremendously broadening. It is questionable whether the teacher can impart as much as he receives. The trip can be arranged so that he can go to China across the Pacific and then return to America by way of India and Suez, thus giving him a trip around the world. Nobody should be deferred by the present disorder in China because it has no anti...
...enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...
...however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...