Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophy to Leather. For a campus, Yenching bought a summer garden once owned by a Manchu prince. There, among artificial hills and twisting streams, rose bright pagoda-roofed Chinese buildings with classrooms for every subject from philosophy to the manufacture of leather. Harvard, Princeton and Wellesley formed their own Yenching foundations. Money poured in from U.S. philanthropists and Protestant churches...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...