Mr. A. de C. Sowerby's frequent advocacy of a real museum for Shanghai, combined if possible with an art gallery and public reference library, has led at last to definite steps being taken to acquire such institution. The scheme is certainly an ambitious one, but lead has been taken by the Rotary Club, which itself is ambitious, se there is hope.
Thursday's tiffin of the club, held at the Union Club,.was in the nature of a birthday party, being roughly the third anniversary of the club's inauguration. Mr. H. Lane was in the chair and amongst; the dozen or so guests were Dr. H S. Houghton, Director of the Peking Union Medical College, Mr.
G. Stroebe, surveyor to the Yangtze River Commission, and Dr. K. T. Chung, Rector of-St. Peter's Church, Avenue Road, who has been for: some while on a mission with Gen, Feng Vu-hsiang's army.
Dr. J. Petit, the first president and now secretary of the club, jewed its three years' work, referring to the ''Pagoda" as the best of all the papers produced by Rotary Clubs anywhere. He emphasized that the club was essentially international, although some men-bers, quite illegally, attempted in the beginning to make it an Afnerican institution. They started tke Aero Club, they took a leading part in raising the American School Iéund, they presented the' Scouts Shield and they had assisted in the good roads movement. He concluded, "We still have a lot to do, and we can do it."
The members decided unanimously to continue the $500 American School bursary, after Mr. J. Doyle had suggested—that, being an international organization, they might consider rotating it amongst ether schools.
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