Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Edwin Pears will give a talk on some of his personal experiences in the Orient at a meeting of the History Club in Conant Common Room this evening at 8 o'clock. Sir Edwin has lived in Constantinople since 1873 and for many years has been at the head of the European bar there. He went there as a correspondent for the London Daily News and it was largely due to his reports in 1876 in regard to the Bulgarian atrocities that public sentiment was so aroused in England just before the Russo-Turkish...
...points on his paper, three or four others received less than 20 and not a few had under 30. However, as the figures show, the class as a whole knew more than half of the questions which is not so bad in these days of sporting page literature. Bowdoin Orient...
...dinner given by the St. Paul's Society in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall this evening at 6 o'clock. Bishop Roots has been prominent in missionary activities in China ever since he graduated from the University and his talk tonight will concern his work in the Orient. All members of the St. Paul's Society and the Christian Association are invited to attend...
...being brought about in the Far East. Does it not seem that American has not seem that American has ignored the fact that she has already assumed the responsibility of being a world power? It seems to me that she has time and again been looked upon by the Orient and by the Occident for relief and support. And i believe that when the present world-conflict ends, probably at the close of the next two years, the belligerent nations will again solicit the help of American to act as a mediator. Then, and not till then, she should take...
...foreign students. The record at the moment is 103 foreigners representing 27 countries. This number is always increased later during the first term when special students make their appearance. Europe sends seven students from five countries, Albania, Italy, Hungary, Norway, and Russia, the last-named having two each. The Orient, in which Turkey and Egypt are included by speech if not by geographical lines, is represented by 51 students, China having the lion's share of 35. Japan, Korea, India, are the far-Eastern countries and Turkey, Syria and Egypt the nearer ones. There are some eight Armenians...