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Perhaps more clearly than other U.S. officers on the scene, Naval Lieut. Horace G. Underwood knew what he was fighting for in Korea. He put it no more and no less eloquently than many others. "I just feel," he said, "that the things I believe in can't go on under a Communist regime." More tangibly, however, than those of the others, the things in which "Hedge" Underwood believed were symbolized for him right there on the battlefield. Two miles west of Seoul's center stands Chosen Christian University, founded by Hedge's own grandfather and namesake...
House on a Hill. Horace Underwood I, a Presbyterian, had gone out to Korea first in 1885 and there married a medical missionary. By 1915, when the Underwoods first opened the gates of Chosen college, Korea had become one of the most Christianized nations of the Orient. In time the new college grew to be the second largest university in Korea. Under the Japanese occupation (1910-45), Chosen and a few other Christian schools like it were the only educational institutions in Korea which kept native Koreans as teachers. It became identified with Korean nationalism...
When the elder Underwood died, his son Horace Horton stepped easily into his shoes as president of Chosen. He and his wife Ethel lived and reared their four sons in the big comfortable Underwood house on a hill overlooking their college. When Pearl Harbor came, the Underwoods were interned by the Japanese and later repatriated to the U.S. Young Hedge, the eldest of their sons, served with the U.S. Navy. After the war he joined his parents at Chosen college. One day early last year two Korean Communists dropped by at the Underwood house. Mrs. Underwood, who was entertaining some...
Died. Ella Florence Underwood, 100, last surviving member of the Oneida Community, a financially successful communal settlement (Oneida Silver) which practiced both promiscuity within its own group and stirpiculture; of a heart attack; near Oneida...
...Underwood, bow; Trimble, 2; Breene, 3; Uhl, 4; Schonewald, 5; Schurmann, 6; Pendleton, 7; Benfer, stroke; Berninger, coxswain...