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...this evening Dr. C. K. Edmund, President of Canton Christian College in China, will address the club on some phase of China's educational problem. In 1903 Dr. Edmund wnet to Christian College as Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, and since 1907 he has held the office of President. During his 19 years of service Dr. Edmund has gained a wide experience in Chines educational methods...
...grave problem M. Rouff presents. The nations would extend their hand to the Orient, to draw her from her peaceful worship of the philosophical gods that she may taste of the romance of international commerce. But, M. Rouff says, China will not submit to the proffered modernization. She will not make merchants of her mandarins; she will keep her narrow streets and rickshaws and pagodas while the West goes its way to destruction...
...quite evident that the tunnel had seen much use at one period of the university's existence. In fact, we learn from obscure references in the records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected...
...beauty of this plan is that, while business men are being relieved of the employment problem, science will, at the same time, be in a position to advance; because the proceeds from the Corporation's services will, of course, be enormous. The profits are to be used in financing scientific research; in short, the philosopher's store--of a sort--has been discovered, for science has found a way to become self supporting. While we may wonder,-in a moment of jocularity, if all science will now rush in where it formerly feared to tread, if we shall see before...
Delay would be the best solution of the problem. If the bill were forced to wait six months there would be but little likelihood of its passage. The President's proposal will insure this delay, for should the idea of the sales tax be gone into at any length it is sure to meet with such opposition as to preclude its acceptance. The agricultural bloc does not want it, the Democrats do not want it, nobody wants it. Discussion of the bonus, then, must lead to a fight over the sales tax in which the bonus itself will become...