Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a vacancy is Tsing Hua College, Pekin, in the department of French. An opportunity is also offered to teach English in a college in Japan. The name of the institution in this instance is withheld on request, but will be furnished at the Appointment Office. A number of positions are open as well on the staff of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, a non-sectarian organization. The following five calls have been received from the Fukien Union University; teacher of Botany, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, General Physics, Electrical Physics. The teaching would be done in English. In view...
...destroying all Christians. As the imperial government made no attempt to quell the revolt an international army was organized, and the 14th Infantry with Bowen was detailed with the American contingent. He participated in the hard fighting at Tientsin and elsewhere and took part in the attack on Pekin in August, 1900. In this famous engagement the 14th was the first body of troops to scale the walls and enter the city...
...this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...
This commission met in Pekin about May 1, 1914, and spent the next four months in a thorough study of existing medical schools, hospitals, and dispensaries in China, and in conference with missionaries, government officials and other competent advisers in regard to the best means of re-enforcing and adding to the important work already done in the field of medical education and public health. A fifth month was devoted to the preparation of an elaborate report of the observations, findings and recommendations of the commission...
...Lamont's descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...