Dr.F, J, White's Account of Commencement and History of Popular Institution interesting. address was given by Dr. F. J. White, former Presiden:
Shanghai College, at the Foun-
hiro traced the history of" the Day celebration on April 1, Dr. Gollege since its establishment by Dr. Kt. Bryan and Dr. J.T. Proc. for, and associated with is continued progress the names of many well known people Dr. White' address was as follows:
When I went over the record of the founding of Shanghai Colleye fand considered. and xcmembered a he names connected with it it gave me a glorious feeling. Isai to myself, Shanghai College is a great institution because of the men amt women who have contributed to its Taking. When the thousandth an: niversary of Shanghai College is Celebrated, T suppose that they will tale about a great many people in the frst century as the founders of the College, and t0 you will not Blame mie if this morning T mention the names of those who had to do swith the College daring the. first ten years of its life, In fact, going Back for about eight" years: before the College actualy opened and for ten years after is opening.
The founders of Shanghai Callese, if we go back to the men who sugested its founding and laid the plans for its founding, the founders of the College were Dr. R. T. Bryan and Dr. J.T. Proctor, whose pie-tures hang in our Library, and T wish T had time to tell you ebons the plans that they made and the time that they. spent in laying the foundation of this institution, bat T haven't the time."
Very early, however, in the founda ing of the College, Chinese had great deal to do with it, as shoud have been the case. I. can't mea tion the names of all the men who trad to do with the laying the plat. for the College, mostly the Chi ese pastors, but I will mention th name of one man whom many of us know, pastor Tsou Ching-tong, Whose nomic T found in the year 10902 for the foundations of the Ca!
Jege were begun in 1900, bat in the year 1908 T found his name among. ther names of those who were consulted about the founding of the Jnstitution. And then our Board of Trustees was began about the year 1 remember there the R. God rd, who was the firet President of the Board of Trustees, and Millard, who was not only a mem of the Board of Trustees, but who also was a member of the faculty for only a very short time, for he] y died when ko had Leen in China ority six years, And then when T consider the opening of the theological school, which was the first part of the stitution to be opened because we didn't have any place to open any place practically but rented build-sin Shanghai until the buildings here on the campus were completed, and 1 think of Mr. Tong Ching-an, who for many years was a constant factor of this institution and still a supporter of it. Among the names are Mr. H. Provence, and Dr. Evans, who is still a mem: ber of the faculty of the Shantung Christian University Medical School, and the names of several Chinese, three of whom I will mention because they will be of interest to many of you: Pastor Wu Tsai-chi whose grandsons are here, student in the College to-day, and Mr. Wa Ting-sung and Mr. Ssu Tsou, who fs still one of those who have the greatest interest in Shanghai Co!- lege. And then I want to mention the names of some men not in China, but who made it possible Shanghai College to be a college at all.
If you will brush away the vines and look at the stone at the corner. of Yates Hall, you will see the name of Dr. E. W, Stevens, who laid that corner stone in the' year 1907, a man who has always taken the ye-y greatest interest in Shanghai Col-Tee. The name of Dr. Barbour, who was Foreign Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union at the time Shanghai College was founded. The name of Dr. Mabee— not the Mr. Mabee who vas a teach-erin Shanghai College, but 2 relative of his—who was an officer of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Dr. Love, Dr. Ray, and Dr. Franklin, whom we are so happy to have with us to-day.
Certainly those who have given
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