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Once more a Harvard graduate appears in a remote corner of the world advancing radical ideas and bringing order out of choas. This time it is T. V. Soong '15 who has taken the position of Finance Minister of the Nationalist party in China. In 1915 when Soong took his degree here one would hardly have thought that the same frail, slight foreigner in ten years would be organizing the finance of a country with a population totaling over 300 millions...
When, however, the ominous rumblings of civil war increased in 1915 and Chinese patriots started to flock to the nationalist standard in the south, Soong found himself moving towards Canton with the rest of the revolutionists...
...responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed by European capital. With the institution of Soong's new budget which abolished the old "farming out" process, the annual income increased to ten times its previous amount, and he gained the absolute confidence of the people for his government...
Curiously enough, the exemplary, mouselike little Chung-ling Soong turned out to have been getting letters and reading newspapers to some purpose. Her serious, fragile nature (and perhaps the fact that she never uses paint or powder) brought her the love of that high-souled patriotic statesman, the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic...
...warfare. They repeatedly defeat forces of greater numerical strength. the chief instructor of those armies is a graduate of M. I. T. With the advancing forces rides a vigorous woman in a sedan chair. Her mere presence electrifies tiring and hungry soldiers into instant activity. She is Chung Ling Soong, widow of Sun Yat Sen, who has become a God to half of China. She is a graduate of Wesleyan College, Georgia, one of the first colleges for girls in the South. When Pelin falls and a unified China restored to youth faces the world, the colleges of America...