Word: shih
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shih showed the frailty of the whole plan when he mentioned that for years there has existed a similar organization attached to Geneva, whose effectiveness has been thwarted by the same forces which neutralize the League of Nations itself...
Other Harvard candidates: Astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Cambridge); Historians Edward Samuel Corwin (Princeton) and Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (Yale); Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (Technische Hoschschule, Zurich); Anthropologist Bonislaw Malinovsky (London); Philosopher Hu Shih (National University of Peiping...
...regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China." Gravely Dr. Stuart opined that, in case Japan makes North China a second Manchukuo, the courageous thing for Yenching to do may be to remove...
...Shih, of Pekin, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
...newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have...