There was a big attendance at the annual banquet of the St. John's University Club, held at the Great Eastern Hotel, on Saturday night. Dr. T. K. M. Siao, _president of the Alumni Advisory Coun-those present. were Judge C. S. cil, occupied the chair and amongst
Lobingier, of the United States Court for China, Mr. Hsu Yuan, Special Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and Professor. J. A. Ely, head of the Department of Mathe-maties.
In the course of an address, Judge Lobingier said that all Amerieans in China should be proud of St. John's, for it was one of tha institutions—and the foremost one—founded by American efforts and enterprise in this part of the country which was worthy of its brilliant past. It was a splendid monument of American philanthropy and service to mankind.
There was no better medium than the University for cosmopdlitanism, for: there Western culture and civilization were introduced and man-building or character: -building achieved. One phase of this institution impressed him more than anything else, and that was the university as a school of nationalism, which was the antithesis of provincialism. Nationalism was a term somewhat new to China. There could be a state without a nation, or a nation without a state, but, without going into technicalities, they all knew they were a part of a comprehensive whole.
Provincialism was natural to the primitive man. He knew of no greater entity that his own locality. Many of China's difficulties had been caused by her relics of provincialism. Provineialism must give way to nationalism, in order that a nation may progress.
Nationalism was the necessary step towards internationalism and, with it only, the great nations could be brought into that unification process which all hoped for and desired.
Mr. Hsu Yuan spoke in high praise of the University's training in athletics. The spirit of its athletes, he said, was admirable and he hoped that, when a call was issued by their country for their service, these young men would serve their mother land with spirit.
tion of a federated alumni associa-Mr. Hsu advocated the organization, consisting of all the alumni of the bigger educational institutions, to exert still greater influence over the community.
Professor Ely mentioned that the faculty and students had contributed $2,418.57 towards famine relief.
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