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Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...History and International Relations at Clark University, received his M.A. degree from the University in 1900 and his doctor's degree three years later. He is one of the most prominent students of international affairs in the United States and a foremost authority on the problems of the Orient and Far East. Professor Blakeslee prepared several reports for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Conference of 1917-18 and was technical adviser to the American delegation at the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments. He is the author of several volumes on foreign affairs and is editor...
...again meet the University diamond team on its second invasion of the country within five years. The Japanese manager wrote requesting a game with the University and Major F. W. Moore '93 has set June 15 or 16 as tentative dates and also suggested that the team from the Orient schedule games with some other college in the vicinity of Boston...
...Crimson ball players won a close decision over the Waseda team on May 26, 1921, by a 6 to 5 score and the nine from the Orient will make a strong bid for a victory this year. The Japanese team will leave in two months and the trip will last well into next summer...