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...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...
...further proof, moreover, that Harvard Yard is the place to go to get in live touch with the Orient, a late report of the Institute indicates that it is now receiving 171 different Chinese current periodicals with 37 from Japan; which places it, in this respect, far in advance of any other American library. Now in possession of 86,651 volumes in the former language and 6,994 in the latter, the Library will continue its collecting of cultural books this year, principally in an effort to procure valuable Chinese ts'ung shu, collections of individual works, and especially those...
...leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...
...several institutions in China and allots to Harvard University such sums as the Trustees deem advisable for the development of teaching and research in the language, literature, history, and art of China and Japan. The Institute also provides some fellowships for Chinese and Occidental students for story in the Orient or at Harvard...
...Cooper), an attractive young man of questionable integrity, is reformed when a baby named Penelope (Shirley Temple) comes into his life. Penelope is his child by an earlier marriage. When first reminded of her, he is having some difficulty meeting the hotel bills incurred in an excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that...