The Archive · 1924

EFFECT OF CHINA'S WAR ON HARVARD COLLEGE

Chinese Professor Said to Have been Delayed in Shanghai Owing to Siege Cambridge, Muss., Oct. 3.

The war in China has upset the Harvard College currievlum. Dr. Kuang Tiemei, who was to. have course in the Chinese lage beginning a week ago, was delayed in Shanghai and no one of the hundreds of professors, instructors and assistants at Hat-yard could be induced to substitute for him until his expected arrives on November 1, Prof. J. H. Woods, of the Philosophy department, Kuang, a graduate student here five years ago, had been delayed in reaching Shanghai by the wur, and then found that no bank in the besieged city would cash the: cheque from Harvard intended to pay his travelling expenses, He missed three boats, but is reported on his way-—Reuter's American Servi With all respect to Prof. Woods if he is correctly" reported, he "wat talking through the back of his" head,

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