Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Roots, who has been a missionary in China for thirty years, returned to America last June and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University. He is returning to the Orient next month...
...second question to be brought up in the final meeting of the Association was of international interest in education--that of the relations of American universities with those in the Orient and especially in Japan and China. The decision to inquire into the status of universities in the Orient was considered necessary because of the increasingly large number of students from these schools to enter the universities and colleges of this country. The report of the investigation will be published jointly by the Association of American Universities and the American Council on Education...
...General Wood affirms, this situation is the one black blot on American prestige in the Orient . . . stories of little girls confined in chicken coops because they would not accede to the demands of their masters; stories of girls traded to Chinamen for pigs...
...tong war of the Chinese are undertaken with a disgraceful seriousness and a criminal disregard of the dramatic possibilities. With all the assets of romantic wrongdoing at his disposal for publicity, Mr. Brisbape's benevolent press agenting of the yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open...
...dormitory, is one of the contributors to the Chicago Tribune's new building. The base of one wall in this skyscraper, completed this summer, is composed entirely of stones taken from buildings made famous by their history and antiquity. Imperial Rome, Ancient Greece, Egypt of the Ptolemies, and the Orient, are all represented by blocks of marble or granite taken from their most notable monuments...