Soochow, May 97.
Two events have brought great satisfaction to the students of Soochow University this month. In the first place, their track team won the East China Inter-Colleglate Championship at Nanking on the 13th, defeating the teams of St. John's University, Nanyang, Shanghai College, Fuhtan, Nanping and South Eastern.
To-day (Saturday, May 27) their debating team won in the annual contest with St. John's. The annual debates between these institutions began in 1914 at Soochow. Twice there was no contest on account of the interruptions of college work due to the student movement. Of the seven contests Soochow won the first three and the seventh, St. John's the fourth, fifth and sixth.
The subject debated today was "Did Chima suffer a defeat at the Washington Conference or rather that would be a fair translation, for the contest was in Chinese. The judges were Mr. Chang Yih-ling, Mr. C. P. Chao, President of China Institute, Nanking, and Mr. Shen, a graduate of Cornell University now teaching in the second Provincial Technical School, Soochow.
A Mosquito Campaion, This afternoon at the Y.M.C.A. there is to be held a meeting for the final organization of a city campaign against flies and mosquitoes. Dr. Woodworth, of the University of California, now serving a short term as Provincial Entomologist of Kiangsi, has already organized this work at Nanking, and recently visited Soochow by special invitation of public-spirited citizens to make a survey and outline a campaign. He estimated that with the use of $1,000 and by the assistance of a number of volunteer workers from the students of the city the sources of these two pests could be so controlled as practically to abolish them. The money needed has been subscribed, the police department has agreed to furnish the desired assistance in inspecting, and the remaining steps will be taken at this afternoon's meeting.
Last night in the Soochow University Chapel a Spring Music Festival was held. A very creditable programme was rendered in which the Glee Clubs of Soochow University and Laura Eaygood Normal, the Choir of St. Jobm's Church, the Soochow University Band and the S. M. Chinese Orchestra took part. Remarkable progress in chorus singing has been made by the young men and women in these Glee Clubs and the choir during the past two years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.