Tsinan, Jan. 3.
This city has been fortunate isit from who is now acting as Exchange Professor of Education at Peking University. The Provincial Assembly and the Educational Association invited Dr. Dewey 'o give a course of lectures on Education in Tsinan, and so the distinguished scholar, with Mrs. and Miss Dewey, arrived here from Peking on December 24. Dr. Hu Shih, professor of philosophy at Peking University, translated for Dr. Dewey, who lectured in English. The lectures, which were given in the Provincial Assembly, were well attended by the teachers and the students of the city colleges, who highly appreciated the opportunity thus afforded them. Some' of the subjects of the addresses were The Child as a Livin Organism. The Social Values Education, The Roots of Western Civilization. The promoters of this course of lectures are to be warmly congratulated upon the stwcess of their venture, for it not too much to say that its influence upon the education of the Province is incalculable.
On December 27 the Military Governor, Chang Shu-yuan, and the Civil Governor, Mr. Chit Ying-kuang, gave a luncheon in honour of Dr. Dewey. The guests included Mrs. and Miss Dewey, the British and American Consuls, and Chinese and foreign educationists. The speeches were short and _cordial. All were interested to learn that there were over 100 Chinese students at Columbia, and that they were mostly taking honours courses.
On December 29, General Ma Liang also entertained the visitors to luncheon and afterwards gave his guests the pleasure of seeing a gymnastic and military display. The prowess of General Ma Liang's men is of a surprisingly high order and he is to be highly congratulated upon the excellent physical training he has developed for China is the land of the unexpected. No foreigner at the Governors' luncheon on December 97 knew that the morrow was the last day of office for one of our hosts. The Provincial Assembly, a week or two previously. had made serious charges to Peking against the Military Administration's use of its finances. and on December 28 the new Military Governor, Tien Chung-vii, took office.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.