Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China, the way leads to Pekin, Nankau Pass, the Old Wall of China, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will...
...summer of 1923 Mr. Warner left for China, taking with him one of his assistants from the Pennsylvania Museum. H. H. F. Jayne '20, on leave of absence for a year. They went directly to Pekin, where they spent a month making the various preparations necessary for a trip into the interior...
...second Fogg Museum archaeological expedition to Western China is now in Pekin, preparing for a long journey to the interior provinces by cart and camel. America has lagged behind in Asiatic research, and only now is undertaking to train young men in Asiatic study and to give them field work and opportunities of thorough research...
With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
...throughout the world for his contribution to mathematics, philosophy, and social science. He was a lecturer and sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, from which the graduated. In 1914 Mr. Russell was a special Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. In 1920-21 he served as Professor in the Pekin Government University. It was while in this latter position that his articles on the political, social, and economic-future of China, and the Orient started the whole world. The official attitude of the governments of the world towards China lias radically changed since then...