日志
哈佛是怎么想起来开设汉语课的呢？
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YALE WAS THE FIRST American college to offer instruction in Chinese, in 1877; apparently, no one signed up.
The next year, a group of Boston and Salem businessmen engaged in the lucrative China trade decided that Harvard,
their alma mater, should also offer Chinese, to prepare a generation of young men to assist and succeed them.
A Boston newspaper editorialized, “The day is probably coming when the hieroglyphics on tea chests and firecracker
boxes will be as intelligible to the average Yankee boy as the signs over the shops of his native village are now.”
