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Identifier: indiaonthemarch00clar (find matches)
Title: India on the march
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Clark, Alden Hyde, 1878- Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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d the final yells exchanged, some ofthe players gather to talk over the coming tennis matchbetween the missionary club and the Gymkhana, or clubof other visitors at Kodai, who are, for the most part,government officials and army officers. That matchis the greatest event of the summer season—and morethan half the time the missionary club wins. We shall find boats on the little lake and row acrossto the school where its eighty pupils are getting anAmerican education in the heart of India. They arecertainly an alert and attractive looking group of realAmerican boys and girls. Incidentally, when theycome back to America, they do well in athletics andstand high in their classes. As we come up to the school from the lake shore wefind some of the boys lying under a tree exchangingstories about their hunting experiences when they arewith their families down on the plains. Jack tellsabout shooting a vulture whose wings measured ten feetfrom tip to tip. Donald follows with a story of stalking
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Rev. J. II. Cliitambar, the first Indian principal of LucknowChristian College, a type of the devoted and capable Christianleader that schools and colleges are sending out into the lifeof India. These men and women are eager to give theirMotherland the greatest service they can render—that ofmaking Christ her leader and king. SCOUTING IN INDIA 117 a fine, big deer. Harry describes how bis fatber andbe suddenly found themselves facing a pair of bigwolves which were coming toward them on a lonelypath. The wolves got away, but later on that sameday Harrys father shot a wild boar. Bill caps theclimax by telling how, when he was off elephant hunt-ing with his father and was lying alone in the bushes,a great Bengal tiger went by within ten feet of him. Between them, these boys and girls can jabber mostof the languages of India. One comes from the heartof the wild Bhil country, another, from the great cityof Calcutta, and the others, from cities and villagesall over India. It took one of t

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