Heads Phi Tau Phi Society of China Dr. Chang Po-ling. was elected president of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honour Society of China which concluded its two-day convention yesterday. Other officers elected for the next three years were: Dr. J. Usang Ly and Dr. Li. Shu-tien, vice-president; Dr. C. F. Wu, secretary-treasurer, and Dean S. T. Yang, assistant secretary-treasurer.
Among the resolutions passed at the meeting were that post-graduate students are to be treated the same as graduating students for membership in the Society. After the business meeting, the delegates visited the Civie Centre and were later entertained by Mr. O. K. Yui, the Acting Mayor, at a restaurant in Foochow Road. Some of the delegates left for Kuling yesterday morning.
The meeting was held at the Chiaotung University in Avenue Haig. Eight out of ten chapters were officially represented: Peiyang by President Li., Shu-' en, Nanking by Prof. A. P; Tai Soochow by President Y. T. Yang Nanyang (Chiaotung) by Dea Cc. Chang in place of Dr. J. Usang Ly who is Chairman of the Convention but was prevented from attending by injuries which he had received in an accident the previous night, Nankai by Dean S. T. Yang, Tangshan by Prof. N. S. Koo, St. John's by Dr. Y. Y. Tsu, and Yenching by Mrs. T. T. Lew. was also present.
The Chinese guests included Acting Mayor O. K. Yui, of. Greater Shanghai; Mr. Wang Chang-chun, Counsellor of the Greater Shanghai Municipality; Mr. Vu Ya-ching, General Manager of the San Peh Steamship Navigatirg Company; and Mr. Hsing-loh Hsu, General Manager of the National Commercial Bank.
The Japanese guests included the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Sue-masa Okamoto; Major-Gen. Seiichi Kita, military attache; Rear-Admiral Denshichi Okohchi, Commander of th Special Naval Landng Party; Dr. Shinzo Shirjyo, President of the Shanghai Science Institute; and Mr. Masusaburo Amano, head of the Japanese Residents Corp.
Mr. and Mrs. Dohi are leaving here for Dairen, en route to Mukden, on July 6 aboard the Dairen Maru.
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