Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The first of the three revolutions of today, to which the Bishop referred, is the Political Revolution. The overthrow of the Empire in 1911 and 1912 marked the end of a system of government that had existed from time immemorial. China, he declared, is now in a stage comparable to...
The second type of Revolution, declared the Bishop, is the Industrial Revolution, which China is now experiencing. The problems connected with the adoption of modern machinery are much the same as in the period of the English Industrial Revolution. Western commercialism has caused a rise in prices, and has introduced...
"Perhaps the most dramatic and significant revolution," said Bishop Roots, "is the Educational Revolution. New learning is struggling with the old civilization. The dyke of conservatism and opposition to the new learning is breaking, and the new learning is overrunning China. The University of Peking, a government institution, is the...
It is right, no doubt, that professors should be "progressive" and "modern". So it ought to be gratifying to hear Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard say, in the contemporary classic tongue, that "we have been fed up on our ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian...
9 A. M.--"Revolution and Reorganization" by Dean Philip P. Chase, Harvard 2. (History B.)