"I shall hope that the Henry Lester Institute, as the first and only one of its kind to exist in China, will grow and send forth endless numbers of students to help develop this country with Science and Industry. The ex-students will whole-heartedly support and help, if possible, in everything to accomplish this end and to increase the friendship between our two nations, the greatest in the west and the oldest in the east" said Mr. L. S. Yang, chairman, at the frst dinner given by, graduates of the Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education to their masters and the Lester Trustees in the Metropole Hotel last night.
Replying to the toast of the visitors, given by Mr. M. T. Koo, Mr. Bertram Lillie, principal, said that he wished to sound two notes. The first the tones of which he trusted lingered in the memory, was the gathering last night might be the beginning of an old students' association which, when happier and more peaceful days permitted, would take form and expand into a permanent organization.
His second note was one of hope, a hope—in which he was sure every member of the staff shared wholeheartedly—that each of the 1937 graduates would find a field in which they might labour with success,
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