To the Editor of the "Nontn-Cuixa Dany News Smit has been suggested that eps might be taken to form a Durham University Society here, in Shanghai, in view of the fact that quite a number of graduates of the University are resident'in Shanghai.
The object of the Society will be to enable those who claim Durham as their Alma Mater to keep in touch with the Varsity, and at the same time meet others who have been in reridenee, and membership will be chen to anyone who has been connected with the Varsity, either at Durham or at Armstrong College o me Medical College, Newcastle-on-yue.
is the hope of the sponsors that every ex-student of the Varsity will become members, whether of Chinese cor British Nationality, irrespective of class or creed.
is, therefore, suggested that those who have been at the University might communicate with the Rev. JH, Brown, B.A., (Hon, Secretary, pro, tem.), Church House, 219 Kiu Kiang Road, Shanghai, to enable him to make arrangements to call together those who are interested, with a view to arranging to hold Aimer at an early date.
"ARMsrnoxe Coutect 1920-22."
Sivanghal, May 13, Professor Barker's Suggestion the Editor of the "Nonru-Cunwa Dany News"
Sig—The letter of "AmstRoxc Coutsoe 1920-22" brings forward a matter of importance to all British university men in Shanghai. ALL though an honoured member of one of the younger British universities find that there is no semblance of British university life in Shanghai for me. Incidentally, 1 have been invited to attend, 1 believe, two func-ions connected with British universities—I presume Oxford and. Cambridge—but there has never been the romalest suggestion of any permanent association with the body Whose guest Ihave been. On the olfier hand it has been my privilege to be invited to certain functions of the American universities and on each occasion the opportunity to join up with the organizing body, if T were graduate of an American' university, was presented to me. I feel, therefore, that I must be expressing what lies at the back of the minds of many British university men in Shanghai when I suggest that there ought to be, in Shanghai an- association repre-
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