Dr. Herman C. E. Liu, President of Shanghai College, gave a few opening remarks. "This ceremony," said Dr. Liu, cant, for it standard of the troduce this system this "year after the pattern of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. It is not the intention of the college to discriminate any jeroup of students whose names do not appear in the roll, but our ultimate aim is to stimulate all of those present so that by the next year a bigger percentage of students can receive honours."
The Dean then read the roll of honours and explained briefly how the standard of determining the degrees of honours was worked out. According to the college regulations, the grade index of the term's work determined the place in which a student stands in his scholastic Jattainment, and he is classified accordingly.
The chief speaker of the day was Professor H.C. Chen, Chinese Education Officer of the Internationfal Settlement. After a few brief remarks, Mr. Chen defined the word honour" at great length. "The sense of honour," said Mr, Chen, is very keen with human beings. We must cultivate this sense so that it can direct us to do many constructive enterprises. Even small children are found to possess this, sense in their mental make-up and it is with the students that this psychological tis mont evident. "It is not sufficient to get high attainment in the scholastic world, though we realize that our scholarship has a very close relation with our life work. Most important of all, we should lay great emphasis to our moral character and we should aim to got the highest honour in this field. A scholar with low moral standards is a man of no honour. We must extend our sense of honour as a student to the sense of honour as a man of character."
Following the address, the honour recipients were asked to meet the faculty in the Social Room where the students received congratulations from the President and the faculty members.
The Honour Roll The honour-rol) was as follows:—Those who received the highest honours were: Seniors: B, C. Dai H. Djeng, M.D. Gwoh (Miss), L. Li (Miss), D. L. Yui, G. D, Wai Juniors:. 'G. "Lin (Miss), F. G.
Sophomores: P. D. Sie (Miss), Y.'C. Wang, D, ¥. Vu (Miss).
High honours were awarded to: Seniors: D. S. Djou, W. Y. Gung, M.S. Gwoh (Miss), D. L. Hwa, LIN. Yang (Miss), Juniors: G. K: Chen, T. S. Djou, ©. D. Li (Miss), Sophomores: B."Y. Chen (Miss), W. Goo (Miss), D. T. Vu (Miss).
Those who were awarded honours were; Senicrs: B. L. Dai, D. P. Dju, S. Fan (Miss), SD. Fang, Y. H. Hou, H. H. Shao, T. "E. Wang; Juniors: G. F. Djang, T. G. Fan, H. H. Gi, C. B. Hwang (Biss), Li (Miss), H. H. Wang, Wen; Sophomores: A. T, Chen, G.T. Li, D. H. Luh.
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