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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...
...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...
...Chinese people are not really divided into sections as was America for nearly 100 years into North and South", said the Reverend A. A. Gilman D.D., President of Boone University at Wuchang, China, when interviewed recently by a representative of the CRIMSON. "It is only that it so happens that the military power, which from the beginning has tried to overwhelm popular attempts to create a modern government, has had its base in the north and has used ignorant northern coolies because it would be impossible to recruit a force against the popular movement in the south...