Forty-nine college students, among whom 14 were girls, received honours conferred upon them for their high scholastic attainments during the academic year 1927-28, when Shanghai College formally observed the first honours day in the College Auditorium on November 24, The faculty and the honour students. assembled in the Social Room where the Dean, Mr. 7, K. Van, took a roll call,' With' the faculty in the front and the girls in the middle, the procession marched slowly to the hall with the boys in the back. They ascended the platform, and for the first time the students sat side by side with their teachers in the hall.
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