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...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...
...Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell...
NORTH TO THE ORIENT-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...