Al his friends will wish " happy and recreative holiday to Dr. J. Jordan who on June 19 sailed on his belated home leave. In his a Dr, BE. F. Duck who, it is satisfac: tory to note is recovering from his Fecent serious illness, will act as Public Health Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 'Pend. ing Dr. Duck's actual return from sick leave, Dr. W. K. Dunscombe will be in charge' of' the Health Department. Cly. Jordan has -been active a mentor to Shanghai in health matters that, the International Settlement will find it. dificult to, believe that a hot weather With all its fearsome possibililiex can be faced without him. Tt. reassured for several reasons: the chief, of course, is that it has complete confidence' in. Te. Jordan's able substitutes, Then the 2 is aware of the diligence with which Dr. Jordan himself has built up a sound and practically-designed health organisation here. So let not them rejoice who think that Dr. Jordan's departure will enable them with impunity. to risk their lives
ing unfiltered water or by any. of by eating unboiled onions, by drink. those other delinquencies appearing fon, the Health Department's black list. "Dr. Dunscombe and, in' due course, Dr, Ditek will soon dis those illusions if seriously entertain. ied. Moreover there isthe motto noblesse oblige." The Settlemend must be on its good behaviour while there no. abnormal disease Dr. Jordan is away. It must sce that
curves in the official charts. And, course, the proper representation will be made to the weather wizards
encountered.
that no unduly trying weather is succeeded him was chiefly through ligious thought of the age, which is Greek Testament of 1516, which leas the first published, for. the [Complctensian version, printed. in 1514 under the diveetion of Cardinal Ximenes of Alcala, was not publish~ edu ose, "By hig letters Erasmus was destined to be famous
Jcorrespondent and an eager. confovposteiy He was a acncuous froversialist—so eager in fact, that Ihe was sometimes too readily drawn into sarcastic rebuttal of arguments Jemanating whether from nonentities lor sages "So thin-skinned. that a ly would draw blod," deciared one jot hig contemporaries. The. rest was' the bequeathal of about 8,000 letters which have provided most valuable material for historians. Seqtsmen have him in their history the tutor to young Alexander stewart "who fell at Flodden. HEnglishmen know him as a Nether ands scholar who discussed theology with John Colet at Oxford and, rome time later, taught for three years at Cambridge at the instance of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, jand with the "support. of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury.
is pleasant, therefore, after fou" hundred" years—Erasmus. died in 1586—to acclaim the work of an English Professor who has helped notably to obtain for Evasinus the recognition of the present. gen tion and for himself won intern renown in the achievement,
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