I would say that it was generally a mixed performance. There were some people on the team who did very well and a few who were disappointed with how they raced.

[Having freshmen toward the front is] a good sign; it means our team is getting stronger.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.