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...which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking for another religion and are modernizing their education. Western influence must operate through the educated class, and the strategic points are the cities...
...through co-operation of certain government officials. These associations endeavor to minister to the physical, social and moral needs of the soldiers in camps on the main lines of supply, and thus a large part of the troops come into contact with them. The effect will be to spread Western ideas among the peasant class from whom the soldiers come...
Moral standards, Mr. Fisher said, are among the higher classes almost on a par with those of any Western nation. The mass of people, however, are largely lacking in moral control. Hence the significance of the common soldiers' contact with the Christian Associations. The destruction of feudalism took away with other restraints moral restraint on the masses of people. Japan is thus in as moral as well as political crisis. Its result will depend largely on the West, to which Japan is looking for leadership. In conclusion, the speaker called attention to the opportunity for influencing the destiny of Japan...
...playing of H. C. Egan '05, captain of the University team, was consistently excellent throughout the season and culminated fittingly in his winning the national amateur championship at Baltusrol. Besides the western championship, which he won this year for the second time, he secured the chief cup in the Ravinoaks and Onwentsia tournaments, was runner-up to G. S. Lyon in the Olympic tournament just finished at St. Louis, won the low score medals in the qualifying rounds of the western and national amateur tournaments, and together with W. E. Egan '05, won the Lake County foursome cup at Onwentsia...
Parker, H.S., Western Electric Company...