{"id":3153,"date":"2026-05-09T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/?post_type=exhibit&#038;p=3153"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:34:44","slug":"time-at-colby","status":"publish","type":"exhibit","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/exhibits\/su-jan-lee-%e6%9d%8e%e8%82%83%e7%84%b6-1924\/time-at-colby\/","title":{"rendered":"Time at Colby (1922-1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After coming to Colby, Lee engaged in many extracurricular activities, such as the chemistry club and the musical club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"423\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-15.png 423w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-15-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colby Echo recorded Lee&#8217;s performance, playing a love song on a traditional two-stringed Chinese instrument with his friend Lee Fu Chi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of his prior education in China and his excellent standing at Colby, Lee graduated after 2 years at Colby. Upon Graduation, Lee was renowned as a &#8220;Christmas Present&#8221; from China, and the \u201cpersonification of courteous politeness\u201d by his classmates and Professors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Colby, Lee admired Principal Roberts and viewed him as a personal model. Lee wrote on a plaque &#8220;the forever teacher model&#8221; and gifted it to Principal Roberts, which is still kept at Colby today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"349\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-16.png 349w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/files\/2026\/05\/image-16-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming to Colby, Lee engaged in many extracurricular activities, such as the chemistry club and the musical club. The Colby Echo recorded Lee&#8217;s performance, playing a love song on a traditional two-stringed Chinese instrument with his friend Lee Fu Chi. Because of his prior education in China and his excellent standing at Colby, Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":387,"menu_order":2,"template":"","institution":[],"place":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibit"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/3153\/revisions\/3379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibit\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colby-and-china-ea333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}