Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will do all the governing and the U. S. will have all the responsibility, largely because of shrewd Senor Quezon's legislative bargain-hunting in Washington during the past few years. One important phase...
Willy Hartner, Lecturer at Frankfurt University, Germany, whose field is the history of natural sciences, especially astronomy among the peoples of the Orient, the Near East, and Central America, will be Lecturer on the History of Sciences during the year. Dr. Hartner will be among the faculty men giving courses in the new doctorate field "History of Science and Learning" projected by President James B. Conant last spring
...Boylston Hall is located the local office of the Harvard-Yenching institute which, in conjunction with Harvard and the Yenching University of Peiping, promotes the study of Oriental culture, carrying on research and granting fellowships to Chinese or Occidental students for work in the Orient, Europe or at Harvard...
Scores of U. S. citizens in the Orient were his friends and admirers because he got them out of trouble or saved their skins. There were tales aplenty about his fellow-countrymen whom he placed under official arrest and locked up in his consulate with a bottle of Scotch while he kept the local authorities at bay, of pig-headed missionaries who were captured by bandits after ignoring warnings to seek safety and whose necks Consul Hanson saved from the executioner's sword by telling their captors, as only he knew how, ribald Chinese jokes. He was called...
...this lonely spot the S. S. North Haven three months ago took 2,000 tons of equipment, set a trained squad to work dynamiting a passage through the reef, building houses, preparing for the comfort of future passengers to the Orient. Then the North Haven sailed off, leaving behind on Wake Island eight inhabitants. To salute these eight men and their work, which it was the first to use, the Clipper circled twice, then slid into the lagoon 8 hr. 8 min. after leaving Midway, 1,191 miles away...