Word: yenching
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Perhaps the most baffling of the miscellaneous establishments is the Harvard Yenching Institute. On the average of nearly once a day the average Harvard man passes the Institute's imposing sign in Boylston Hall. He may be moved to investigate, but the old indifference all too quickly crops out, and with a shrug of his shoulders and possibly a remark such as "Let them yench," he will pass on his way. It takes an inquiring mind to find out that the Institute is carrying on research work for Chinese and Occidental scholars and that it supports several institutions in China...
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