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...arrived the first batch of Chinese government students in the U. S., among them young Tang Shao-yi. In 1912 Tang became First Premier of the Chinese Republic. Last week venerable Tang arrived in Canton, lent by his presence an air of respectability to the successful revolution there (TIME, May 11). Canton vernacular papers told their readers: "Tang Shao-yi is a personal friend of Hoover Herbert,* President of the United States of America. . . . Their friendship began 30 years ago when Hoover Herbert was a young engineer in China...
...White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this...
...Parker Fellowships for the year 1930-31 have been awarded to three students of physiology. Two, at present, are instructors in Physiology at Harvard and the third is coming to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. They are M. I. Gregersen, Hudson Hoagland, and Pei-sung Tang...
...chimpanzee, and the orang-ou-tang smirk and grimace behind from bars Man, the spectator, sighs as he thinks of the wonders of evolution, and his own superior state...
...which should greatly enhance the possibilities for Yuletide convivialities without disturbing the year's scholastic program. Although the announcement comes at that particular time in the year when any ordinary reference to Christmas provokes no more enthusiastic display of emotion than a reminiscent leer, it bears such an unmistakeable tang of Santa Claus about it that it justifies some comment...