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Mr. Quo Tai-chi was born at Wusueh, Hupeh, in 1889. He studied in Wuchang from 1903 to 1904. In May 1904 Mr. Quo arrived in the United States of America, as a government supported student. For one year he prepared for college at Easthampton high school, and at Willeston Seminary between 1907 and 1908. He studied political science at the University of Pennsylvania between 1908 and 1911, and graduated with the degree of B. S. In his college days he was active socially. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in March 1911; and was a member and an officer of the Philomathean Literary Society during 1908-11; and a member of the Cosmopolitan Club 1909-11. Between 1911 and 1912 he was awarded a scholarship in sociology at Pennsylvania, and became an editor of the Pennsylvanian. In 1911 he was reporter for the Philadelphia Press. He returned to China in March 1912, and was appointed Secretary to Li Yuan-hung, who was then Vice-President with his headquarters at Wuchang,