The London University Society was formally inaugurated on Monday evening, when about 20 Chinese and Luropean members of the University assembled at the Carlton Cafe. Dr. Herbert Chatley, b.sc., who presided, briefly explained the suggestions put forward by the provisional committee, and after some discussion these suggestions were embodied in the rules of the society.
The aims of the society are to bring together members of the University, of whatever nationality, resident in Shanghai and other parts of China: to give information on the courses which the University offers to students proceeding from China: to endeavour to make Shanghai a centre for the matriculation examination and thus save much time and expense; and, generally, to further in every way the prestige and usefulness of London University in the Far East. That there is room in Shanghai for this and similar bureaux of information is evident from a recent speech of the Chinese Charge © d'Affaires in London. Addressing the Union of Chinese students on January 29, this gentleman said that students sometimes arrived in London only to find that there were no vacancies in the educational institutions which they had hoped to enter and that care should be taken in advance concerning such matters.
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