Word: china
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FOUR Harvard graduates are now in the customs service of China...
...they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes...
...Professor of Chinese is sent here by a private subscription of American merchants in China. The present problem - "What shall we do with him?" - will be settled at the next meeting of the President and Fellows...
LAST March two letters from an American in China appeared in the Boston Advertiser, advocating the establishment of a teachership of the Chinese language at Harvard. We congratulate the College on the early accomplishment of the plan. A Professor of Chinese has been sent here by a private subscription of American merchants in China, and several letters from China are in the hands of the Corporation, containing information as to the best methods of teaching the language of that country. We trust that the stay of Professor Ko Kun Hua among us will be agreeable to him, and that...
...letters from an American now living in China have appeared in the Boston Advertiser. The writer advocates the establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek...