The Archive · 1929

THE HARVARD CLUB'S FIRST MEETING

Season Opened with a Tiffin at the Cathay Hotel The Harvard Club of Shanghai held ts first meeting of the winter season in the Tower Room of the Cathay Hotel on October 28 during the tiffin hour and 32 members were present, a record. in attendance.

The President, Mr. Loy Chang, of the Central Bank, presided and from every standpoint the meeting a-decided success. The prin-al speaker was Dr. John C, H. Wu, president of the Provisional Court who gave a brief talk on the Intellectual Tendencies of the East and West.

Dr. Wu thought that in intel-Jectual thought the east was moving westward and the west, having completed the cycle, was' moving eastward. He illuminated his remarks with several illustrations and he foresaw that the dividing line between the two halves of the world was rapidly growing less as the cast rejected those veins of thought which were found to be archaic and the west was beginning to. find the worth in eastern thinking.

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