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...Radcliffe, a Kobe College Committee was appointed annually to make the sister-college contacts, and a "Cherry Blossom Song" in honor of the relationship was written. Annual gifts, sent to Kobe from Radcliffe's Community Chest, built up the "Radcliffe Room." An additional gift came from an Idler production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," which netted...
Gifts came from the opposite direction as well. In 1929, Radcliffe's fiftieth jubilee anniversary, the girls at Kobe remembered the occasion with a delicate set of Japanese bells. An exchange of letters and student publications went back and forth across the Pacific. At Kobe, the English-Speaking Society kept up the student end of the sister-college relationship...
Exchanges in cultural matters eventually evolved into an actual exchange of students in the late 30's. Miss Alice M. Maginnis, a Radcliffe graduate and an instructor in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, won the first fellowship to Kobe from Radcliffe. She was spending the summer of 1937 in Japan and China as a member of the study group under Robert K. Reischauer of Princeton University and was to study in Kobe that September...
When fighting broke out in Shanghai and Reischauer was killed in a bombing, Miss Maginnis fled to Manila, where she shared the city's worst earthquake in 30 years. When she reached Kobe, she decided the year was not a propitious one for her art study and relinquished the fellowship...
...Radcliffe came Kei Yoshida, who taught in the Music Department at Kobe on her return home...