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Although the University crews have been on the river only one week, their development has been so rapid that Dr. Howe and the coaches will decide tonight what men will be retained next week in the three eights that will then constitute the University squad. Especially encouraging has been the work of Crew A and Crew B which, although they are not graded, have a majority of the veterans...
...oldest and largest of existing nations, is often said to be the most conservative, but after 18 years of residence and travel in that land I am impressed with the evidences of China's power and progress. One of the most important indications of this is the rapid development of modern education in China, in the time that I have been there. In 1903 there were only 1247 students in all schools of a modern sort under Chinese auspices, and yet, when in September, 1905, the government determined to establish a general system of public schools, before...
...introduced, they began to make, as they still do, more money on passenger traffic than on freight, which is just the opposite of what it is in this country, and at least serves to show the popularity of this better means of transport. Another striking commercial example is the rapid evolution that has been brought about in the silk industry in the province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs...
This is the situation of Anthony Patch and, as it is to be expected his story is one of a rapid descent from a position in which he keeps within most of the bounds of convention through lack of daring or leisure to transgress to a position in which, with a very unconvincing attitude of insouciance, he has given up every pretense of being more than a beast...
...feature of the tournament has been the rapid rise of Dixon from an unknown quantity to the brilliant player of the late rounds. He was champion of Oxford University before coming to this country, and reached the semi-final round of the Class B Massachusetts State Tournament this winter...