The Ministry would welcome way additional effort on the part individuals or organizations to carry its work in technical education further. 'The Lester Trustees are men who have gained positions of "influence in the business and "industrial life of Shanghai and who are well qualified to see how such a [school could best' be conducted to reduce the desired result. They.
we the support of the Chinese Government in making the Institute lof Technical Edveation not only one Jwhich will serve the local needs of but also one which by its up-to-date equipment jand its intimate contact with industrial Il come to occupy a position of eminence in this field I cannot refrain from saying word on that provision of the will which says that both the Lester School and the Lester Institute of Technical Education will be open to students of all nationalities, espectally Chinese. It is very "evident that the founder had in heart two things: first, the School and the Institute of Technical Education should be a visible embodiment of international friendship and international ce-operation; and secondly, the School and the Institute should Besides the Lester 'Trustees, rops presentatives of local industry' and commerce, of Government and the Conatiar Body attended th ceremony. Dr. Chu Chia-hua, Minis-iter of Communication was' unable to be present, but was represented Crushed under the wheel of a, bus which could not go. forward, nor go back without running over, her chest again, Mrs, Sz Lam-ving, 27-years old mill hand, died in Ward Road near the corner of Thorburn, Road on Thureday afternoon.
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