The first to offer congratulations to the new President was Dr. Yen Fo-ching, Dean of the Hunan Yale In the cour to China, Dr. Peter Parker, and the frst educational the Rev. 8. R. Brown, w graduates, and also mentioned several present-day distinguished Chinese as coming from the same university. Dr. Yen spoke alto of the two periods of the Hunan Yule, one when the college was inside the ity doing work on a small scale, id the other the present period of expansion and development illu. strated by the fine buildings on th> ground outside the city. A tribute paid to Ds ilities, but 'A visitor from America, Dr. H. W. Farnam, Emeritus Professor of Beonomies of Yale University, who) was there as a representative of the Trustees of that University to welcome Dr. Hume, read a document containing the message of the Teustees, and supplemented this by his own words of congratulation Jand exhortation to the students, Then followed a series of felicitations in messages and speech from various gentlemen. Mr. Tseng. Yulung, of I Fang College, Changsha, spoke both in Chinese and in English. He was followed by Dr. J. H. Lia of the Medical School, Peking, Gen. Chao Hong-ti, Gover nor of Hunan, Mr. On Yang, Speak-ex of the Provincial Assembly, and Mr. Chen, Chief Secretary of the Provincial Cabinet.
Dr. Hume gave his inaugural address in Chinese. He began with a reference to a_window in the Chapel of Yale College at New-haven which has an inscription in Latin, "Qui Transtulit Sustinet," meaning "He who brought across, sustains," This inscription gave the inspiration to the Doctor for his address which he divided into two special themes, "The Message of an Enduring China" and "The message of an enduring Yale." In the first, Dr. Hume enlarged ea quiry" that hax been found in the past days of China's history, and" referred to the gifts of material wealth and the contributions to his torical research that China had made. Ifis-explanation of the long, endurance of the nation was tha presence and acceptance of spiritual forees, and he called upon those present to look forward to the inter= pretation of religion that China herself would in future give to tha world, In the second part of his address Dr. Hume recalled the history of Yale and asked why that insti had also endured. "Speaking of the need of education he laid special emphasis on the greater need of Jearning and manifesting in all things the spirit of Christ, After the address the National Anthem was sung and a conclud~ ing prayer was offered by Dr. Gilman, President of Boone College, Wuchang.
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