The 41st commencement day exercises of St. John's University were held on Saturday afternoon, when 69 students graduated from the five English departments and 15 received diplomas from the School of Chinese Literature, these forming the largest class of graduates in the history of the University.
The proceedings began with the procession to the Alumni Hall of the guests of honour, the faculties, alumni, and students in their academic robes, and there, after an invocation by the Right Rev. Bishop F. R, Graves, p.p., _the Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, p.v., President of the University, gave an address in the course of which be said Last November we celebrated our 40th anniversary and at that time we spoke of the pro: gress made during the forty years of our history and of what we hoped to accomplish in the future. We mentioned the fact that owing to_ the donation from the China Medical Board of $80,000 and the supplementary gift from our own trustees of $20,000, $100,000 was at our disposal for the development-of the Department of Science. We stated that a new science laboratory would be erected. This morning some of you were present at the ceremony of the laying of the corner-stone of the new science laboratory building. It is in the process of erection on our property on the other side of the Soochow Creek and it is hoped that it will be finished next spring.
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