The Tsingtao University opened its second school year on Monday. The university has an enlarged faculty of university-trained men and women and looks forward to most successful year. The total enrollment is 160 and the students hall from all parts of China. Mr. Sung Chuan-tien, Spesker of the Provincial Assembly and President of the university, has taken the personal responsibility for providing funds for the maintenance of the school. Over $10,000 has been spent on new furniture, struments and apparatus for' the chemistry department, also. mine als and rocks for the laboratory of the engineering department and wooden models ordered from Germany.
The commencement of the school Year is concurrent with the decline of the summer season and. the outgoing boats are fast carrying away Tsingtao's summer colony. The weather remains delightful but annually the exodus begins about this time. The season was bumper one and all the hotels and pensions reaped a rich harvest. One of the notable features of the summer season was the varied sporting activities, headed of course by pony-racing which has caught on here with a vengeance. Swimming was a close second, while] [tennis and golf had hundreds devotees.
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