Shanghai, Apr. 2. F[{HE annual dinner of the Oxford and Cambridge Society wax held last night in the Masonic Hall, Avenue Road, with Judge Milton Helmick of the U.S. Court for China as the guest of honour, Over fifty members of the society were present for the annual meeting which was held just before the dinner, "The business of this meeting having been gone through with the customary despatch and the accounts having been adopted, the following were elected as officers of the society for the ensuing year:—Mr. J.R. Jones, president, Mr. J. McNeill, vice-president; Committee:—Messrs, A, V. T, Dean, R. H. Heyworth, Dr. J, H. Jordan, Dr. Sze Ming-sze, and Judge ¥. H, Lou, Mr, N. J. Stabb was re-elected and the duties of secretary were taken over by Mr. lite for his excellent work for the society during the long period in which he had been acting as secretary was paid to Mr, A, H, Samson, the retiring secretary.
The beautifully proportioned banquet hall of the Masonic building, with its fine accousties, proved an ideal setting for the dinner. Dr, Sze Ming-se, varying the usual order of the toaits, proposed the toast of Alma Mater, after the health of the King had been drunk, In an extremely Good speech, Dr, Sze began with a needless apology for possible misuse of words, which he said, had during the last few years come to take somewhat individual meanings, As examples he quoted as proofs of Keneral moral' deterioration of the world's standards, the meanings attached to the words "appeasement," sincerity," and the elasticity of the word "incident" as applied in China,
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