ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY

A RECORD OF PROGRESS

The North-China Herald

30 January 1915 · 101 words

Illustration: The Masonic Hall and Messrs Butterfield and Swire, The Bund, Shanghai, during the Duke of Connaught’s visit, 8 April 1890, from a nineteenth-century photograph (1890), redrawn as a photocopied cutting.

We have received from the President of St. John's University a copy of the prospectus for the academic year. This booklet shows what wonderful progress has been made since St. John's College was founded in 1879 by the late Rt. Rev. 8. I. J. Schereschewsky, D.p., Bishop of Shanghai. Originally the institution was formed by the amalgamation of two boarding schools of the protestant Episcopal Church, in Shanghai. The American Board of Missions pledged a yearly sum for the maintenance of the institution, and, the Jessfield site having been purchased, the first college building

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