'A New Economics Building for Hangchow Christian College sera 70 "8 "Noe, HERALD"
In front of the crescent of the main campus buildings of Hangchow Christian College and also. fronting on the Chientang River, is now being completed an Economies building, given in memory of Mr. Teng Tsu-sin, a former student in the economics department of-the college.
This gift was made possible by his class mate, also a student in the college and son of the late Mr. Sze Liangetsal. The name of the donor lg Mr, See Yun-ken. It may be recalled by readers of the "North-China Daily News" that the father, son and school mate of the son, were relurn-Ing together from Hangchow Shanghai in a motor car. En route they were waylaid by assassins. The father and the son's school mate were: killed, the son -barely managing to escape with his lit Mr. Ste Liang-teal, was a well known editor in Shanghai, a man highly respected and beloved. He was at the time of his death, an honorary member of the Field Board of Control of the College.
'The new building has been erected at a cost of $21,450 and an equipment fund has been raised by the teachers ud students of the economies department, amounting to about $3,000, 'On the ground floor are rooms for: 'a students' bank, a ce-operative store, fan accounting "laboratory, statistics laboratory, two offices, a post office and a telephone room. The economics Wbrary is on the second floor. On the third floor is a small assembly hall and on the fourth floor 1s a clock tower.
The economies department has developed rapidly during the past few years. There are two full-time and three part-time teachers. Thirteen courses are now being offered. There are already 121 students in this De-' partment, of which 04 are boys and 27 are girls.
The building overlooks a magni cent view of the Chientang River, Including the construction of the new bridge which Is quite near to the college, site.
The college site is itself one of un~ usual beauty with its tons of thousands trees, Three valleys converge on the gymnasium and swimming pool and the formation of the stadium, sur~ rounded on three sides by hills and opening out on the river at its farther end, i unsurpassed for natural deatity. The observatory is 400 feet above the mean tide and the highest il top Is shout 1,000 feet above the jo level.
Since the presidency of Mr, Be-en Lee, the student attendance has more than doubled and several gitts of new buildings have come from Chinese sources. The Field Board of Control and faculty of Hangchow Christian College feel that the Institution, while retaining its Christian spirit and character, is an integral part of the life of the city and province and this feeling is heartily reelproeated by the general public,
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