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...Corps in Peking did some plain speaking to the Government. Individual members of the Cabinet took it upon themselves to please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
Accordingly, Harding's campaign manager, Will H. Hays, conferred with pro-League Republicans (especially Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the then President of Cornell University, and Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, President of the Academy of Political Science at Columbia Uni- versity), and as result Elihu Root prepared a draft declaration in favor of Harding and an Association of Nations. This draft was discussed at a meeting of the Century Club of New York City. It was finally made public by Dr. Schurman on October 14, 1920, at the University Club, New York, appearing in the press on the following...
...American Government is obviously uncertain as to what is happening in the Celestial Republic, and has therefore despatched the General to find out. Leaving Manilla at an early date, he is expected to proceed to Peking where Minister Schurman will assist him in diagnosing the ills of China...
Married. Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., a son of the American Minister to China and former President of Cornell, to Mary Allerton Cushman, in Manhattan...
...American Minister to the Chinese Republic, Mr. Jacob Gould Schurman, formerly President of Cornell, delivered a smarting attack on the instability of the Government at a Washington's Birthday dinner held in Peking...