The second annual dinner of the iitsh Universties Society. was held Yesterday at the Park Hotel, follow ing the annual mesting of the soclely, About sixty members and. guests of oth sexes were present, the official nests being Mr, and Mrs. Bruce Int, Smith, of tie. American Universities Society, 'Major Es "T. Heslop, com monding: the First "Battalion, "the Durham Light Infantry. and. Captain S.J. Ritchie, of the Firat Battalion, tie 'Seaforth' highlanders, Pi the Chinese, Republic" and Society," the newly elected president, Mr. J.'E, Badeley, pald a special tribute to Mr, H. G, B. Perry for his work as hon, secretary and treasurer. The society usself, he stated, neither overlapped or competed with any existing society in Shanghai. Memership of other university societies id. not conflict with membership of their society.
It was their object to induce each individual member to take active part in the affairs of the society, and the late _president "had inaugurated the system of working in groups. Each group was under a convener, and was @evoted to a special subject. At present four groups had been organized or were contemplated, and these were the literary, music, science and economies groups.
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