Since three brave young pioneers ventured 12,000 miles from home to enroll at Monson (Mass.) Academy in 1847, some 10,000 Chinese students have journeyed eastward to acquire a U.S. education. The pilgrimage has been interrupted by war, but 1,700 war-stranded students remain in the U.S. Primarily as a meeting place for them, their postwar successors, and their U.S. friends present & to come, a four-story, red brick mansion on Manhattan's East 65th Street was dedicated last week as China House. Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation to the China Institute of America, it is a memorial to the late Dr. Henry...
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