On Monday afternoon the formal laponing exercises were held in the Rew chapel." On the platform were Seated Dr. H. H. Kung, Vice-Presi= Jdent of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, Mr. Wang Shih~ chi, Minister of Education, Dr.
Shih, of Peking University, Mr. Chu Ming-yl, Chief Secretary' of the Executive "Yuan, Mr. Shih Ying, Mayor of Nanking. Mr. Peng Hsioh~ pel of the Executive Yuan, Dean Chin" of Chiso" Tung University. Shanghai, Dean Chen' of Central University, President ¥. G. Chen of the University of Nanking and Dr. /Robert Fitch representing Hangchow (College. The faculty and president Jof the college were also seated on the platform.
The opening remarks were made by Dr. Yi-fong. Wu, Pri of JGinling. She expressed the gratitude fof the college to those who con-{teibuted to the joint campaign which the various women's boards conduct fed in the United States in 1921-23 to raise building funds for the seven oriental union christian celloses for women. At that time. Ginling re-Jceived her share for buildings, and the brary and chapel were built from these funds. Dr. Wu also expressed yratitade to. Mme. H. H. Kung. Mme. Sun Yat-sen and Mme. Chiang Kal-shek for their gift in memory of their mother, Mme. Soong, jin. the form of @ dormitory for the students. in the Ginling Practice School. She then briefly traced the steady development of the college through the past nineteen years.
The student body this year is 213 contrasted with the nine in the first class in 1915 at the time the college opened. The faculty has infereased to about 50 from the original eight. The curriculum of over $0. [courses has been developed from the fearly curriculum of eight courses. The college budget for the present year is fifteen times the first budget Jof $10,000. At present the Ubrary has 23,000 volumes, while it started fu 1015 with one set of eneyelopoedias. The total cost of the campus, build ings, Wbrary and science equipment amounts to over US. $905,000. Over 300 women have gone out from the college and are working in various fields in fourteen provinces, including Yunnan and Kwangsi in the southwest, Szechuan in -the west, Chihit and Shantung in the north, "Kuang tung and Fukien in the south Educational work has the largest number from this group a3 nearly 60 per cent. are engaged in teaching or administrative work in colleges and middle. schools" The second" group {includes those who are doing Social land religious work. Medical work joomes third, and those engaged in public service come fourth. Each year many more requests for [graduates are received by the ap pointment committee than there are fzraduates to fil the positions, which {indicates something of the quality lof service Ginling alumnae are rendering in China.
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