Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advisory board, which is composed of Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The purposes of the institution are: (1) To teach modern medicine and surgery to Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinese Government in inaugurating a greatly needed hygienic reform; (3) to study particularly the diseases of the Orient. In furtherance of the second provision, Dr. Edwards, who has just completed the work for the degree of Doctor of Public Health, will on his return take up the training of health officials...
...attractive and unusual opening is offered to members of the Senior class and to recent graduates in the form of one-year teaching positions in the Orient. This plan has already met with the favor of many, and several have availed themselves of the chance to visit Japan, China, and the Philippines. These positions are in the various educational institutions of the American missions...
...first place the student who takes such a position is doing a real service, not only to the foreigners but also to the American missions and institutions abroad. He is given the opportunity to see at first hand, and to understand the work Americans are doing in the Orient. In view of the rapid advancement and growth of the East, it is a rare chance to study closely the economic and political conditions of Japan and China, as well as of our own possessions. There is an additional attraction offered to medical students. In addition to regular teaching experience, very...
Although the expenses of travelling to and from the Orient are naturally large, the salary paid and the necessities supplied would lessen the cost considerably. The American Board, 14 Beacon street, Boston, provides all the fixed expenses, including room, board, heat, light, laundry and so forth. In some exceptional case the Board may give a salary, although it makes no official provision for it. Twenty positions may be obtained for one year by college graduates through the liberal policy of this Board...
Full information regarding teaching positions in the Orient will be given at the meeting of the Christian Association in Phillips Brooks. House tomorrow at 10.15 o'clock. J. T. Addison '09 will outline the plan already announced in the CRIMSON by which opportunity is offered for a year or two of residence in the Far East. Several men have already signed up for these positions and any members of the University interested in the plan will be welcome at the meeting tomorrow...