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1st. Saturday. Bright. Hot.
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Seoul home. The 興業 Club met for supper at 淸凉寺 from 4 to 7 p.m. Returned home thoroughly tired.
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2nd. Sunday. Bright. Very hot.
6
Seoul home. Wrote Helen giving her some advice (1) To throw away 50% of her American manners and to adopt 50% of the best Korean manners―modesty, reticence, thoughtfulness and politeness. (2) To identify herself with some kind of movement for the betterment of the Korean people. (3) To alive herself always with the Koreans. (4) To frustrate the expectations of some people who fear that she has come back a spoiled child proved and impolite to the Koreans.
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3rd. Monday. Cloud early morning.
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5th. Wednesday. Rain. Cool.
12
Left Song Do with Helen 2:25 p.m. train for Seoul. Rain from about 7 a.m. on and off―till it became quite a down pour about 2.
14
6th. Thursday. Bright. Hot.
15
Seoul home. Went to 城北洞 with wife, Helen and other children for picnic. I had not a wink of sleep last night―felt very miserable today. Returned home morally tired.
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7th. Friday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. Rain from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Regular down pouring all the rest of the night.
20
8th. Saturday. Bright. Hot.
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9th. Sunday. Beautiful. Hot.
24
Seoul home. Went to 宗橋 Church with Helen. Lunch at Pastor Ryang's. A refreshing siesta after lunch. About 4:30 p.m. called on the Cynns'.
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10th. Monday. Cloudy. Sultry.
28
Seoul home. With Helen visited her mother's tomb 2~3 p.m.
29
Mailed a letter to 致昌 and sent a bill of exchange for600.00.
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11th. Tuesday. Cloudy. Very hot.
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Seoul home. Began raining about 5 p.m. Tremendous down pour all night.
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12th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Very hot.
35
Seoul home. Cleared up late a.m. Sunny p.m.
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14th. Friday. Sunshine and cloud. Very hot.
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Left Seoul 8:10 a.m. train for Song Do.
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15th. Saturday. Bright. Very hot.
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Up at 5:30 a.m. Left Song Do with Helen per 11 a.m. train. Went to 城北洞 to attend the reception given to Helen and Helen Kim by the 歐美留學生 Club, from 4 p.m. to 9:30. Returned very tired.
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16th. Sunday. Sultry. Cloudy.
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17th. Monday. Bright. Very hot.
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Seoul home. Left Seoul for Song Do per 7:20 p.m. train.
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18th. Tuesday. Bright. Sultry.
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Song Do home. To the office after tea in the morning. Stayed in the office until 4 p.m. preparing report of the mission meeting. Mailed resignation to Mr. Wasson.
54
Left Song Do 7:55 p.m. Arrived home almost sick.
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19th. Wednesday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. Rain all the morning.
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Well now, I have definitely resigned my position as the Principal of the Song Do Higher Common School. During my term of three years what has the school got in the way of equipment etc.?
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(1) A Gymnasium, ￥10,200.00. (2) A Science Hall. (3) A General Science quarters for Zoology, Botany etc. (4) The Upper Athletic Ground. (5) A Reserve Fund, which made possible. (6) The purchase of homes for teachers. (7) Library. (8) The adoption of the definite plan or policy of keeping or working toward 8 section scheme so as to avoid overcrowding. (9) A Dairy. All these have cost me directly and indirectly about ￥22,000.00.
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20th. Thursday. Bright. Hot.
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21st. Friday. Bright. Sultry.
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Left Seoul 10 a.m. for 鳥致院. From there auto ride for 60 li to 公州 at 1:30 p.m. Arriving at 公州 found the 夏令會 crowd crowded into a Korean inn-dirty as usual. Spoke from 7:30 to 9 in the night at the 永明學校 Chapel. Found Pastor 方 very intelligent and clean. He keeps his house unusually tidy. Messrs. 李商在, 金昶均, 蔡弼均, 崔承萬, 邊成國 and I were put up at the parsonage for the night. Found cots, clean sheets―mosquito nets very welcome.
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Except the fact that I have given my conscience a satisfaction for having fulfilled an engagement, I have found this trip one of the most unpleasant journeys have ever had. (1) The town of 鳥致院 made me sad to see the one-sided prosperity of the Japanese and the correspondingly one-sided poverty of the Koreans. (2) It makes me sick at heart to see how utterly the Koreans fail to imitate the cleanliness of their Japanese neighbors. Everything Korean so dirty, lazy and imbecile. (3) 公州 is the last place for a Summer Conference―No good accommodations forth boys. The means of transport as poor.
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22nd. Saturday. Bright. Sultry.
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Up at 5 a.m. Breakfast 8:30. Left 公州 10:30 a.m. in auto for 鳥致院 at which place I had to wait 5 solid hours to catch the 4:07 Special Express for Seoul.
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23rd. Sunday. Pale sun. Sultry.
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Seoul home. Real summer seems to have just begun.
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24th. Monday. Bright. Hot.
75
Left Seoul for 元山 or 釋王寺 with wife and children. Fortunate to have Mr. Ryang on the same train. Wife had train-sick. Reached 釋王寺 or rather the premises of the Temple where inns are located about. Put up at 蓬萊館.
77
25th. Tuesday. Bright. Hot.
78
釋王寺. Went to 元山 Beach per the early train. Read my report on the Song Do School about 10 a.m. Returned to 釋王寺 about 5 p.m.
80
26th. Wednesday. Bright. Hot.
81
釋王寺. Visited the temple with wife and children.
83
27th. Thursday. Cloudy. Warm.
84
Visited 元山 with wife and children. Dr. Ahn treated us to a lunch at the Japanese Summer resort. Returned to 釋王寺 about 5 p.m.
85
時善 my first cousin 致旿's eldest boy who graduated last year from the Imperial Medical School of Kyoto is stopping at the 金逢旅館. He doesn't take any exercise but keeps in bed all the beautiful hours of the day and night with his everlasting thermometer to watch the rise or fall of his temperature. He seems in constant fear of death―a fine accomplishment of years of study. He is practically useless to himself and to others―as a doctor. There is one thing worse than undereducation―that is over-education. The former keeps one humble and willing to learn while the latter makes one conceited and puffed up. Si-Sun and Helen seem to suffer from over-education―too educated to be useful.
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28th. Friday. Cloudy. Hot.
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釋王寺. Helen, Misses Howard and Goodus visited us on their way to Seoul. Went to 釋王寺 temple with them in the afternoon. They left 釋王寺 Station per 12:25 train. Began to rain about 10 in the night.
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29th. Saturday. Rain. Cool.
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釋王寺. Tremendous rain all day and night.
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The beautiful mountains around the premises of 釋王寺 should have been clothed with giant trees 5 to 10 centuries old. But thanks to the ignorance, laziness and meanness of the monks, there is hardly a tree more than 40 ar 50 years by ago. The hills back of main temple are barely covered with saplings.
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The monks whom the selfish and foolish policy of the Confucian Yi Dynasty treated with unreasonable indignities now try to make things even by studied insolence. These ignorant and ignoble monks know no more about the true meaning of Buddhism than the pigs they eat.
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30th. Sunday. Misty rain. Cool.
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Intending to go to Seoul, went to Station with bag and baggage. Learned at the Station that the temporary bridge at 寒灘江 being washed away, we couldn't go any further north than 金谷. So we had to return to 蓬萊館.
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31st. Monday. Beautiful. Cool both ends of the day.
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