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...Francis Cho-min Wei, President of Hua Chung College (Central China College), Wuchang, China, will give three public lectures on Confucianism at Harvard, Oct. 29, 30, and 31, and will conduct morning chapel at Harvard College...
...native of Canton, China. He graduated from Boone College, Wuchang, in 1911 with highest honors, and took his M.A. at Boone in 1915, his M.A. at Harvard University in 1919, and his Ph.D. from London University. He has been a member of the staff of Boone College since his graduation there. In 1929 he became president of Central China College, successor to Boone College, after being its acting president for two years...
Married. Louise Frances Gilman, daughter of Bishop Alfred A. Gilman of Wuchang, China; and Francis Stevenson Hutchins, head of Yale-in-China, son of President of Berea College William J. Hutchins, brother of Chicago University's Robert Maynard Hutchins; in Montclair...
...north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become worse. Hankow (pop. some 800,000) and its sister cities Hanyang and Wuchang were doomed to destruction: houses were collapsing everywhere, mud walls on which refugees perched were slowly sinking into the floodwaters. The three cities had enough cereals for three weeks. A little meat, no vegetables, no ice. The power plants were in danger...
...Seattle landed Professor Theodore Hobbie, returning last week from his occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from...