Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...many years Lieutenant Gammon has held a commission from the Chinese government. He was with the allied armies during the Boxer uprising and was at the siege of Tien Tain. At that time he was largely influential in bringing relief to the sufferers. After the war Lieutenant Gammon returned to America, where he has delivered many lectures in all parts of the country concerning his experiences in China. The views which will be shown tonight are from photographs taken by himself during his stay in the far east...
...Tenney has been in the service of the Chinese government for some twenty-five years, having been tutor in the family of Li Hung Chang, as well as secretary for the Chinese ministers in the international complications following the Boxer uprising. Later he was Chinese secretary for the International Commission. Since 1906, Dr. Tenney has been in charge of the Chinese students in this country. Last year be directed the successful Chinese entertainment in the Union for the benefit of the famine-sufferers. His successor as director of American students is as yet undecided...
...clock Mr. E. B. Drew '63 will speak on "The Boxer Uprising and the New China." Mr. Drew was for several years a commissioner of customs in China, holding the rank of mandarin, and has thus had unusual opportunities to know the condition and recent history of the country...
...devoted to some of the most interesting historical events in mission countries during the nineteenth century. In this manner the lectures will treat of the Taiping Rebellion in China, the Indian Mutiny, the reform movement in Hindooism the development of Africa, the transformation of Japan, the Armenian massacres, the Boxer uprising, and in general, the place of missions in the history of the nineteenth century...
...thinkers to be not second to that of Greece, an educational system which is in some respects--notably in the education of public officials by the state--a model for others, and a religion which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking for another religion and are modernizing their education. Western influence must operate through the educated class, and the strategic points are the cities...