The accommodation of students of the Si. John's University reached its limit this year, said Dr, F. L, Hawks Pott, president of the University, in hhis announcements on Saturday during the University's Afty-sixth eommence= ment exercises. A' large number guests and alumni, were "in. alton dance. 'The programme included music' by the band of the Fourth US, Marines, a procession of guests, faculties, alumni, and students, a hymn for the nation, Invocation by Bishop J. W. Nichols, the president's an-ouncements, and an address by HE. H. Kung' on "the proper attitude college students should have towards lite, Dr. Pott stated:—
"We have been greatly encouraged by the fact that St. John's seems to have a real place in the educational world, Our enrolment this year has been so large that we have reached the limit of our present accommodation. There have been over $25 studying in the schools of the University and 300 in our Senior Middle School. We have had proof of the confidence placed in St. John's. by the generous response made to our appeal for funds for the erection of a new dormitory building for the Middle School. In a surprisingly short space of time the amount needed ($35,000) Was secured, and more than $18,000 was contributed by parents, guardians, and interested friends in' Shanghai The alumni of the University have continued to show their willingness help their alma mater during the time when we are somewhat financlally embarrassed. What is known as the Sustentation Fund has, been kept and we derive $12,000. annually from that source, to be added to our income
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