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...Stuart came to Cambridge for a conference with President Lowell on the formation of an Institute of Chinese Relations, and organization which would have as its purpose a study of Chinese problems by graduate students in Cambridge and Pekin...
...Leighton Stuart, President of Yenching University, near Pekin, China, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today. The general topic of his speech will be "China...
...thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...
...Warner, Class of 1903, Mr. Jayne, Class of 1919: and other members of the second expedition to China returned in 1925,--Alan R. Priest. Class of 1920, a member of this same expedition remained in Pekin for purposes of study. Dr. Goldman has carried on her excavations in Eutresis, Boeotia. Her work is practically finished and will be published in due time. Dr. Chase visited the site of her excavations in April, 1926, and was very much impressed with the work which has been done...