Dr. Dealey at American College Club The American College Club of Shanghai met at the Y.W.C.A. home at 6 Annam Road on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. J. Q. Dealey, who is Professor of Social Economics at Brown University and exchange Professor of Psychology of the Shanghai Baptist College, gave an "From the Receiving Home, by 84d ress, ing "The Superior the side of that surging tide of Sex" as his subject. He explained sin, goes forth every day the the two words "'androcentric,"" evangel of the good news of hope meaning man, the centre, and and salvation." An account of naecocentric," meaning woman, this work occupies many lines in the centre, which were coined by the report.
Dr, Lester F. Ward, the greatest Later in the report mention i: of American sociologists. made of the closing of the Waifs With this introduction, Dr. Strays Home owing to the estab-'Dealey proceeded to present siiment of other orphanages in lustrations and arguments from Shanghai. Acknowledgement is history, literature, and tradition, made of contributions and other dealing with each viewpoint in assistance from the following urn. "The i view-ani Free Christian Church, Municipal point,' he said, "has been he sai taught Council, Police Force, Shantung fom time immemorial, in all Road, St. ° Elizaboth's and. the SWilized lands, as a fact beyond Isolation Hospitals, Dr. A. G. question. ie Confucius wrote of—the Parrott and the Junior Red Cross Superior Man, but presumably Society. The sanatorium in mem-forgot that there might possibly be ory of Mrs. Fitch will be ready in a Superior Woman. Hebraic and a few months.
Christian divinities are always male, and in St. John's Cathedral, New York, the Bishop refused to allow the architect to represent THE EASTERN WELCOME angels in Nominios. form CLUB are male,' asserte: al ublic: angels A recent letter from Home con- As some of the earliest writings tains brief details of the annual, Presenting the dinner of the Eastera Welcome! @tgument, Dr. Dealey mentioned Club held at Frascati's in February, John Stuart Mill's argument for Although the Club has been. jo! Women entitled: "The Subjection existence for some 2 years, it does Of Women," and Lord Lytton's: not appear to have been particular-;"'The Coming Race," the first imly well advertised and an announce- Portant Utopia depicting a civilizament may therefore be of interest tion in which women are the generally. The Club was formed Superior sex. This, of course, does with the object of promoting social 2Ot mean that protests against the intercourse and good friendship androcentric point of view were amongst Eastern business men, and 2t Occasionally made even ae far members going home on leave are back as 2,500 years ago, when the always assured of a welcome and Princess Medea railed against her introduction to members.
A husband Jason because of his luncheon is held at the Great androcentric views Even in Eastern Hotel on the first Tuesday Xenophon's time, the women of in each month and is generally at- Athens were demanding larger tended by me~bers home from Tights.
The philosopher Plate India and the Far East, a number Sdmitted the theory of equal rights of whom were visitors at the With women and anced annual dinner of the Club, held_ argument for them. about China New Year. This year Dr. Dealey then presented the the President of the Club is Mr. question of inherent superiority, Calfoglu, who was in Shanghai saying that if a woman naturally during 1913 and the following year, lacks the energy and the brain-and Mr. Dewhurst (of Malcolm volume of a man, she cannot, by Dewhurst) is a past president. law, be made equal with him, but Any reader who may wish to get in can only be given an equal start. touch with the organization should "Inherent. superiority of either communicate with the Hon. Secre- sex," he said, "has not been protary, Mr. Sidney Morris, c/o Messrs. Natzio, Norbury & Ca., Ld., 95 Billiter Buildings, E. C. 3.
Dr. Elmer 8. Brown, director of physical education for the Inter-! national Committee of Y.M.C.As. in New York City, arrived in Shanghai last week by the T.K.K.S. Siberia Maru. Dr. Brown was the organider of the Far Eastern Olympic Games. ven" and, after citing some of the ways in which each sex seemingly had the advantage over the other, Dr. Dealey made the suggestion that, while perhaps neither sex is sunericr to the other, there are at any rate superior individuals, and the superior individuals of society are those who lead it in its many activities and make those achievements that help to advance oivilization. d without permission.
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