Avery interesting function, marking an epoch in the educational history of Shanghai, took place last Friday evening at the Public School for Chinese in Elgin Road, when seven Chinese schoolmasters received the parchment final certificate of the Council's Normal School, these being the first students to quality for such a distinction.
The presentation was preceded by a social gathering and tea in the art room of the Public Schoo! for Chinese. Among those present were Mr. Herbert Phillips, 0.b.8., H.B.M. Consul, Mr. Shen Tun-ho of the Chinese Educational Committee, Miss 'T. M. Pierce, Messrs. G. S. Foster Kemp, K. G. Dowie, H. Turner, A. F. f. Holland, F. C. Millington, T. G. Baillie, Bartley, and numerous Chinese members of the staffs of the Muni cipal public Schools.
Mr. Phillips, as Chairman of th: Chinese Educational Committee, dealt in a comprehensive address with the history, functions, and aims of the Normal School. who school, he said, was entitled to a much wider reputation than it had hitherto enjoyed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.