The Archive · 1934

NEW BUILDINGS FOR GINLING COLLEGE

Formal Dedication in Nanking at Founder's Day Dedication ceremonies for the new Chapel-Music Building and the Library-Administration Building at Ginling College, Nanking, were libeld in connection with the Nine teenth Annual Founders' Day celebration on Sunday and Monday. "Alumnae and. faculty joi ed''the students "In the Founders Day Banquet. Dr. H. H. Kung and Dr, Hu Shih were the speakers and formal greetings were brought for various. departments of the ma-tonal and municipal. governments, These exercises mark the completion of the academic quadrangle of Ginling College as planned. and financially provided for in 1021-23, The funds were raised in.a joint campaign for seven oriental colleges in China, India, and Japan, under the leadership of Mrs. Peabody. A. total of U.S. $3,000,000 was raised of which Ginling's share was U.S. $600,000. The two new buildings. like the other academic buildings and the four dormitories, are in the adapted Chinese style_and were planned by Mr. Henry Killam Murphy of New York and Shanghai The two new buildings are providing the college with adequate space for work which has been done in tem-orary quarters for the last ten

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