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Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
Airfields & Oil Wells. The Russians came ostensibly to establish order in Sinkiang. They built barracks, airfields, factories, oil wells. They created a police force and army. The nominal head of the Sinkiang Government was General Sheng Shih-tsai. now Minister of Agriculture in the Chungking Government...
...Shih, visiting lecturer on Chinese, will deliver the annual Ingersoll lecture this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Andover Chapel on the "Concept of Immortality in Chinese Thought." This lecture, provided for by a fund left by Ralph Ingersoll, often called "The Great Agnostic" of the last century, is given annually at an April gathering of Divinity School alumni on the subject of the "Immortality...
...visiting lecturers, who will be held over from the summer and winter terms, include Ralph P. Boas. Visiting Lecturer on Mathematics; Stanley G. Estes, Visiting Lecturer on Psychology; Herman Finer, Visiting Lecturer on Government; Paul A. Palmer, Visiting Lecturer on Government; Ralph Salem, Visiting Lecturer on Mathematics; and Hu Shih, Visiting Lecturer on Chinese...
...negotiator, smart, suave General Chou Enlai, had flown down from Yenan for one more try after almost a year of bootless words over issues as broad as China itself. For two weeks he had talked long and earnestly with Chungking's ace negotiator, scholarly, liberal Information Minister Wang Shih-chieh...