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...word Boxer comes from a mistranslation of the Chinese I ho Gh'uan, meaning The Patriotic United Fists, a secret society which originally was anti-dynastic, and had nothing to do with pugilism in spite of some " peculiar calisthenic exercises." At the end of the 19th Century the society came under the influence of the Empress Dowager, who persuaded them that the foreigner and his. spheres of interest-and not the Manchu dynasty-was responsible for the ills of China, and incited them to fight the invaders of their land-hence the Boxer Rising...
...title page of Christopher Morley's new book, "Inward Ho!" the twentieth century poet has inserted the words of his brother Keats: "Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, sping from his own inwards his own airy Citadel--the points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting...
...Inward Ho!" is not poetry but it was written by a poet. In fact Morley thought of the volume as sort of eccentric text book for students and wanted to call it "Preliminary Ejaculations Tending Toward an Understanding of the Meaning of Poetry," but when he wrote that down on the title page it looked too formidable...
...union is an idea to which Mr. Gompers has always been vigorously opposed. Ho believes in autonomous unions within each trade, coordinated and assisted by the Federation of which he is leader...
...Ho, hippy...