Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board supports two first class universities of recognized academic standing, even in this country. One of St. John's at Shanghai and the other is Boone at Wuchang...
Boone is different in many ways. It is located in the very central part of China, about 650 miles up the Yangize River in the city of Wuchang. It is a smaller school than St. John's and has about 450 students but it offers the advantages of a small college. For many years it has had a very famous library and library school which has supplied librarians for most of the libraries of China. A large gymnasium has been recently completed. Unlike Shanghai Wuchang is a truly Chinese city with no foreign concessions or foreigners except missionaries and teachers...
...Wuchang and the delightful country around it, real Chinese life, unchanged by foreign influence, may be seen. But just across the Yangize River from Wuchang and easily reached by ferry is Hankow, a city of foreign concessions, where there is a considerable number of American and British business men and most of the advantages of western life may he had. Boone has recently united with some other schools to form a Central China University and has started on a period of expansion...
...Tokyo, a man is desired who has an A.B. degree, and who is qualified to teach Latin and modern languages. A teacher of English, of engineering, of philosophy and psychology, and a teacher in physics are sought by St. John's University in Shanghai. The third institution, Boone University, Wuchang, desires a teacher of English, a teacher of Science, and a teacher of business subjects...
Bishop Roots has been actively engaged in missionary work in china ever since his graduation from the Episcopal Theological School in 1896. For two years he studied the Chinese language at Wuchang, after which he was ordained priest and entered into general missionary work at Hankow. In 1904, he was consecrated in Trinity Church, Boston, second Bishop of Hankow. Since 1913 he has been chairman of the China Continuation Committee...