Interesting Lecture by Netherlands Consul-Gen-ral The second in-the "international" series" of lectures which are being sponsored this year.by the A. W. C. [tock place om Tuesday afternoon in the clabrooms and was attended by 12 large gathering, proving the i terest taken inthe idea, Miss A.
Viola Smith, president, presided at the meeting and the speaker for the afternoon was Mr. F. B. He:
Groenman, Consul-General for the Netherlands "in Shanghai, whose topic was "The Netherlands and the fatherlands East Indies." Mme. so Spunt accompanied on the iano by Mrs. G. Benson gave' two song selections at the commence ment of the programme and di lighted the gathering with the sure sand lovely quality of her rich voice.
In presenting his address, Mr. Grocnman gave a brief survey of the history of Holland and the national characteristics and expressions, Holland was, he said, really a colony of a Nordic race of inhabitants who settled there in comparatively rece! times as history went. The languas northern one, sind the char of the country along the] A rth Sea and Atlantic had driven the tasse" in" question. to the com mercial pursuits, to falling and to history of Holland had always been. one of struggle) Against che sea, settlers having been driven tothe eastern. part asthe central part of the country "was oticly swamps, The fighting in-Stincts of the Nordic race bad, therefore, bean turned nto non-military channels owing. to thie constant strucele, and this was Tact, the speaker ded existed lao between Calvinism and! the Inherent feeling of the Nordic race fo: being. inthe world. and [fighting the good fight "with the ord's own weapons
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