A meeting of members of the Country Club was held on April' 10 to consider the question whether the present property of ti:2 club should be gold and another site acquired.
There was a full attendance, and consideration of the suggested change was the subject of discussion.
On a vote it was decided not to sell the present property. and the chairs in the class rooms, and the furnishings—a good many thousand dollars to furnish this building. Her husband, when he died, left in his will a considerable sum of money for Shanghai College, which we always know as the Seamen Fund, and which has done more than any other single amount of money of like amount for oar gymnasium T would not do di to memory if mention the name Mr. M, C. Treat. He was a man who war so modest that he never iked to have people tell about the gifts that he made, and yet he and Mrs. Treat gave more money to Shanghai College than any other: one family. We have three great buildings on our campus built by Mr. and Mrs. Treat. Then I want to mention the faculty. Dr. Bryan, The picture shows Mr, Avenue Road, well planned for the needs is handsome and imposing, house the English, Scottish and fri Masons.
a hall adjoining Avenue Petain some Proctor, Mr. Tong, Mr, Millard, Mr. Mabe, who is now Dr, Mabee, Mr. Webster, who has just recently died, and whom we expect to Fe-member in a special way very goon, Dr, Westbrook, Mr, Kelhofer, M2. Hanson, Mr. Hips, Dr. Huizinga coming the last of the year 1917, But you can't make an institution without students. You can have campus, build rot an educational institution, and 40 1 want to mention the names of 8 few of the men who have graduate ed from Shanghai College during' that first ten years of its life and who have been loyal supporters of shanghai College, cither as members of the faculty or as members of the Board or in some other way standing loyally by the institution, and I wish I bad time to tell you how loyally they have stood by it and have considered it their own, The class of 1913, Dr, C. C. Chen and Mr. T. S. Wu who is with us today as a member of our Board.) The class of 1914, Mr. Bau, Mr. Yui, Mr. Loh, the Principal of our Middle School. ' The class of 1915, Mr. Fu Ching-on, and others for the classes of 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919, There have been a great many women who have contributed to the founding and building of Shanghai Collez@ I wish I had time to mention the names of all of them, but I am going to mention the names of only two, The first one is the name of Mrs. C. C. Chen, who; while she has not been a member of the faculty of Shanghai College, has not taught to any extent in the tution, has been one of the great: est factors not only as the wife of Dr. C. C. Chen, but as an advis one whose Christian character has made her a great factor in the building of Shanghai College. 1 am on will forgive me when 1 mention the name of the other w2- man who, not merely because she happened to be the wife of am ber the faculty, but in Rer own tight as having helped to Iny the found: tions of Shanghai College deep and strong, Mrs. White.
Axotume order has been issued by local Chinese authorities, forbidding rice merchants to sell' grain at more than $18 per picul for the dest grade. been also taken Commissioner Social Affairs to pi chants from inerensing their pri s0 as te alleviate the feed situation,
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