Mr. Alfred Sze arrived at Shanghai at 7.a.m. on September 28 by train from Nanking. He is staying at the Bank of Communicatior ill take his departure for London, vid Suez, on board the Japanese mail steamer on October 2.
Society to Study the Teaching of English.
3 p.m. on September 7, an inaugural meeting of the above Society was held at the Kiangsu Board of Education outside the West Gate. The Society is the first of its kind formed in China by Chinese schoolmasters. It is a healthy sign, betokening the rapid development' of the English lange uage in China. The Society will form ® component part of the Kiangsu Board of Education; but its members are not necessarily members of the Board; they must be either natives of Kiangsu who are, or have been, teachers of Enj lish, or natives of other provinces who are, or have been teaching English in schools in Kiangsu.
The Society will devote itself to studying and, if possible, improving the method of teaching English at present obtaining here.
'A nomination of officers was held.
Mr. Kuan Ying-lin, who was elected President, is the Headmaster of the Mingcheng College, after having been teacher of English at the Nanyang Polytechnic College for over ten years. Vice-President Yih Tah-chien is now teaching English at the Special Engineering School established by the Ministry of Oommunications. The Secretary and the Treasurer are also experienced teachers of English, so are the Committee of five, including Dr. Wang Chung-hui who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in the first Republican Cabinet at Nanking.
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