Continued from page 192.) erect at once a complete set of buildings to house and secommodate all the diverse types of equipment necessary to cope with the largo range of technical education required in "Shanghai, and. accordingly the main block was first erected at cost of approximately $1,000,000.
The foundation stones were laid on February 17, 18M by Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Minister of Education, and Sir John Brenan, H. Bf. Consul-General in Shanghai, and the build Ings were completed in September of the same year. The equipment of the Institute, which was the most up to date procurable, cost some $400, 060, but the time soon came when plans had to be made for the extension of the Institute and the install tion of heavier types of machinery, and this has now been done. You il see for yourselves when. os it hoped, you all will take a four of Inspection of the buildings and Jabor~ atones "(both old and now) what large elds have been covered and how completely efficient and up to date is the machinery anft equipment. 'The Institute and Schoo! can aceommodate about 500 day students and 1300 evening students, and of the present number a large majority are Chinese, and that this is so is a mat~ for' congratulations, because by the terms of the bequest, whilst the Institute is open to all national vas the testator's iden and inter that it shawld be especially for the benefit of Chinese
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