Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rutnam, A.M., president of Central College, Colombo, Ceylon, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock, on "Present Political Conditions in India." The lecture, which is the first of the Political Club lectures of the year, will be open to all members of the Union...
From India, Professor Moore went to Hong Kong, China, by way of Colombo and Singapore. He was in China for over four months, during which time he travelled more than 10,000 miles within the limits of the Empire. His journeys led him as far inland as Hankou, 780 miles up the valley of the Yangtse River, and through the large province of Fukien. In following out his commission Professor Moore visited every station of the American Board in the Chinese Empire besides many more conducted by other societies, British and American, of all denominations...
...Ceylon, the Colombo association has a new building, and there as in many other places, the work is supported by Buddhists, Parsees, and Hindus as well as by Christians. Two prominent Hindus stated recently that "the Association restaurant has done more to break down caste in Southern India than any other agency, the Madras Railway not excepted...
...from the Agassiz Museum to the Maldive Islands, for the purpose of st dying and making a collection of the rate coral formations of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Agassiz fitted out the expedition and is conducting it in person, accompanied by W. McM. Woodworth. A steamer was chartered at Colombo, Ceylon, from the British India Company, to transport the expedition to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the Maldive Islands lie. The islands of the Indian Ocean are the only group of atolls remaining which Mr. Agassiz has not examined in his explorations for the study of coral...