He emphasized the links between China and the older English universities, and said that one of the most important events of years was the appointment of a prominent Chinese scholar to the seat of Chinese at Oxford. To everyone's regret it was probable that fewer Chinese students would be attending Oxford and Cambridge in the future, as, up to the outbreak of the present troubles, China had been improving the facilities in her own country for the higher education of her citizens. British ideals had, he said, become to be recognized by the Chinese as e high standard to which all should cling, and they could gauge developments in Central Europe and elsewhere by the measure in which they departed from these ideals, In proposing the health of the guest, Mr. J. R. Jones touched briefly upon the history of the society, which was founded by Sir Havilland de Sausmarez in 1909. The only original member who was still in Shanghai was Sir Allan Mossop, who was carrying on the judicial tradition of the society in occupying the bench upon which the founder of the society had sat. It was additionally appropriate that the guest of honour should be the chief judge of the United States Court for China.
Judge Helmick, the president continued, had had an interesting career. He was born in Missouri, the "Show me" state; educated in Colorado, the "Silver state"; and had practised at the bar and sat on the bench in New Mexico, the "Sunshine state". He was known as a sound judge and a humane one, who tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, while combining dignity ana humour.
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