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Amid Homeric moil and treachery the city of Shanghai changed hands, last week, falling to China's best detested War Lord, Chang Tsung-chang, called "Chang of Shantung...
When Chang, a six-foot bandit chieftain, visited Peking, last winter, cultivated Chinese were shocked to see in his train as concubines some eighty young women seized by his soldiers from the richest fathers and husbands in Shantung province. Conscienceless and avaricious, Chang has farmed tribute out of this densely populated province until even the poorest have yielded all that could be seized...
Missionaries arriving from the interior told of bandit gangs raiding undefended villages in a spirit of grim carnival. In the formerly law-abiding province of Shantung, for example, the town of Wangchihpao was sacked and 1,000 Chinese killed. Many children whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
...persons who were never within gunshot of the University of Pennsylvania were struck by an article in the current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania...
Faculty Scholarships George Edward Gardner, Senior in Dartmouth College, West Bridgewater; Charles Webster St. John A.M., Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, A.B. Clark University 1911, A.M. lbid, 1912, Dean of Colleges of Education, Liberal Arts, and Pharmacy, University of Porto Rice; Kenneth Kilgore Thompson A.M. Shantung, China, S.B. Hanover College 1910 A.M. ibid, 1912, Principal of McPherson Academy for Boys, Ichowfu, Shantung, China; Jacob H. Trofs A.M., Centerville, Ia., A.B. Morningside College 1920, A.M. Indiana University 1922, Principal of Centerville High School, Centerville...