of Progress Prospects for the projected regstration of St. John's University with the Ministry of Education are bright, Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott, President. of the institution, declared in-an Inter~ view with the Central News Agency on March 31, Dr. Polt, who left for the United States on April 4 in the Empress of Is] Russia, sees no dimeully ju securing the approval of the Board of Trustees of the university In that regard.
The Board, whose meeting is ar~ ranged for the end of April in New York, in which Dr, Pott will parti-mate, is expected to give sanction to the new constitution of the University which will be forwarded the Chinese Ministry of Education as the basis for registration, If the University is eventually. placed under the oficial roll of the Ministry, De, Pott asserted, former graduates of the institution are pected to be recognized by the Na-anal Government and" will eligible to sit in civil service-examin ions, oF hold government position the privileges to which they have iS] hitherto not been entitled, The alumni of the institution, the educator said, will send a separate petition to the Central Government, in this connection following the formal registration of the University, 'With St, John's University on the official roll, Dr. Pott further stated, the: middle' scho in various munieipalities China, including St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai, Mahan School, Yangchow, and Soochow Academy, Soochow, operated under the same mission as that of the college, will also be registered, says Central News,
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