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We walked and donkeyed and bicycled all around Peking but were not able to secure a suitable piece of property. One
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day I was invited to Tsinghua College by some friends, and one of them said, “Why don’t you buy that property across from ours?” I looked at it, on the main highway to the Summer Palace five miles out, but really nearer to Peking because of a good road than many other nearer places already considered, and quite attractive. The location was toward the celebrated Western Hills upon the slopes of which cluster some of the loveliest temples and palaces of China’s great past. It had been the ruined garden of a Manchu prince but was now used by Governor Ch’en Shu-fan of Chensi (Shensi!) as a summer villa and ancestral hall. An official we knew said he would try to secure it for us. The Managers and Trustees approved the proposed site and the next summer I went to the capital of Shensi to see Governor Chen (Ch’en!). The Governor showed great interest, sold us the property for $60,000 in Chinese currency, and contributed one-third of the purchase price for scholarships. The original purchase was forty acres in a solid piece. In course of time, we bought adjoining gardens also in ruins or open land amounting in all to more than four times the tract.
——不知PKU的同学对这些事儿有耳闻不。也不知司徒先生的拼音是怎么拼的，前后都不一致。
We walked and donkeyed and bicycled all around Peking but were not able to secure a suitable piece of property. One
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day I was invited to Tsinghua College by some friends, and one of them said, “Why don’t you buy that property across from ours?” I looked at it, on the main highway to the Summer Palace five miles out, but really nearer to Peking because of a good road than many other nearer places already considered, and quite attractive. The location was toward the celebrated Western Hills upon the slopes of which cluster some of the loveliest temples and palaces of China’s great past. It had been the ruined garden of a Manchu prince but was now used by Governor Ch’en Shu-fan of Chensi (Shensi!) as a summer villa and ancestral hall. An official we knew said he would try to secure it for us. The Managers and Trustees approved the proposed site and the next summer I went to the capital of Shensi to see Governor Chen (Ch’en!). The Governor showed great interest, sold us the property for $60,000 in Chinese currency, and contributed one-third of the purchase price for scholarships. The original purchase was forty acres in a solid piece. In course of time, we bought adjoining gardens also in ruins or open land amounting in all to more than four times the tract.
——不知PKU的同学对这些事儿有耳闻不。也不知司徒先生的拼音是怎么拼的，前后都不一致。
