The Archive · 1936

Anniversary Celebration

Peiping, May 28.

A stone tablet, about thirteen feot high and. five fect. wide. and woith= {nig 90,000 entries, will be. orasented by the Chinese graduates of Harvard University on he orension of) the 300th anniversary of the founding of their alma mater next Sentember.

"The tablet is being made from a niece of stone In the eld Yun Ming Yuan, near Tsing Hua University. which war purchased by the Chinese Hraduales of Harvard for $1,000, Masons are busy at work Inseribing the text of m Chinese congratulatory riesinge to be presented on the or-asian of the forthcoming anniversary. As soon as the carving Is completed, the tablet will be shipped Shanghai for transportation to the United States.

There are about 1.000 Chinese graduates of Harvard University Seallered in diferent paris of the 'Dr. Hu Shih, Dean of the Collexe of "Liberal Arts of the " National University of Peking. and Dr, Wit Wen-chao, Professor of. Socioloxy at Yenching' University. will represent their respective universities at. the eelchrations of the 00th anniversary of Harvard—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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