Over "60 members attended the ber, monthly meeting of the American University Club, held at Bhe Astor House on Oct. 25, when Dr. Essen. M. Gale spoke on "Ad-Yentures of Sinology. in. Amecican Universities."
The sinologist working in a vast field, even the literature of ancient China alone," said Dr. Gale, "re-ards with some envy the palaconologist, the archaeologist or the ethnologist, who from the examination of a few archaic characters on shell or bone, from a skull or from a thighbone, is permitted to reconstruct a whole era of pre-ory. And yet the rewards of the Jabours of the sinologist in the vast ramifications of Chinese literature the time and Pains involved. "A unique world is @pened, a world equal. to that of ancient Greece and of the. still earlier Mediterranean civilizations, this ancient Chinese world, which is now being reconstructed, we find that people thought clearly. gh the problems of life. They ime
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