The close of the winter term was celebrated on Saturday with the programme usual to the occasion, the events of the day being followed Wilh great interest by the students and their friends, by whom the T. Sammons, American sul-General, also spoke brief and expressed the hope that a of commerce might be added to the Chiversity, observing that it was the men of business who com.
the di force of the arious functions were well attended. In the morning there was the wot! football match between the:
dents and the Alumni, and afte: luncheon, military exercises, Boy scout patrols gave a smart display, and the "Lion trol won at keenly—contested patrol competition. The University cadet corps paraded for ceremonial ill, and was inspected by Major Trueman, who awarded the petition shield to "D" Com. pany.
The literary us were held in Alumni Hall, which was filled with students and visitors. The devotional part of the programme was conducted by the Rt. Rev. F. R. Graves, p.v.
One of the most interesting of the speeches delivered was that by Dr. P. W. Kuo, en. p, (Columbia) who discussed the question: What ly an educated man?" In the past the ideal scholar in China was the man able to produce an eight-legged essay, and in the West, the ideal scholar' was the man who had mastered mathematics, The modern world made greater demands, and pected the learned men of to-day to be skilful in the science of human welfare and to be able to apply all knowledge to the adv tot civilization, Physical well-being, moral power, constructive imagina tion, knowledge of the literature of his country, and skill in. self-expres-were qualities which in the view of the speaker were essential to the modern educated man.
Mr. Chu Dong-ching was received with enthusiasm upon coming for: ward to receive the honorary B. A. degree, conferred by Dr.
Pott, Mr. Cha has been cerine with the university for seventeen years and as headmaster for eleven years of the extension sel iecomplished work of gre:
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