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...Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) President of Cornell, onetime (1921-25) Minister to China, taking ship for his new post in the Embassy at Berlin...
...made necessary by the malconformation of Chinese law as compared with the beauty of Roman and Teutonic law, regarded by white men as their inalienable inheritance. Nationalistic China now resents the concession of extra-territorality, demands the abrogation of the treaties. The most important speech of U. S. Minister Schurman - recently promoted to be Ambassador at Berlin (TIME, Mar. 30)-was made two months ago on this subject. He tactfully suggested gradual changes...
...other delicate matters better than Mr. MacMurray. Since graduation from Princeton, he has filled diplomatic posts in Siam, Russia, China, Japan. In 1919, he became Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else? In a word...
...Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, was transferred to be Ambassador to Berlin (post left vacant by Alanson B. Houghton, transferred to London...
...Jacob Gould Schurman is a cosmopolite. Of Dutch descent, his boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro...