Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Tenney of Cambridge, who has lived in China about 20 years, opened the entertainment with a short statement of the existing conditions in China. He said there were about 4,000,000 people, occupying an area of about 40,000 square miles, who were at present living on the bark of trees and on roots cooked in water...
...Tewkesbury '87, who has been in China over 14 years, and is now a teacher in North China College, showed some very interesting views of the Chinese country, explaining the cause of the present famine. The population in the oppressed district is densely crowded, and wholly dependant upon the soil for its sustenance. As the spring harvest of rice has failed, the people are thrown as a dead weight upon the country, to be supported by others, or left...
...entertainment was closed with a strong talk by P.H. Lo '09, in which he told, in excellent phrasing, the great and pressing needs for money in China at the present time...
...annual dinner of the Deutscher Verein, which will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union on Friday evening at 7 o'clock, has been arranged in honor of the officers of the German warship "Bremen," at present anchored in Boston harbor. Mr. W.T. Reincke, the German consul at Boston, Professor Munsterberg, Professor Francke, Professor Peabody, who was visiting professor to the University of Berlin last year, and Professor Schofield, recently appointed visiting professor for next year, will also be among the invited guests. Tickets to the dinner, at $2 each, may be obtained by the members...
...Freshman track team last night. Watson prepared for College at Volkmann School, where he ran on the track team for three years. He was a member of the Freshman relay team that defeated the Yale freshmen in the B. A. A. indoor meet during the winter, and is at present running the half-mile on the 1910 team. During the fall he played halfback on the Freshman football team...