Washington, May 24.
Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, linked the modernization of China with Columbia University tonight at the annual banquet of the Columbia University Club. The banquet was attended by many Government officials of high positions.
In his speech, Dr. Hu Shih said that the idea for modernization and pavilion at the World Fair here.
"We retain old formule, which advocate collaboration between people and not their classification according to their strength," he added.
"We say, 'Progress with solidarity, work with liberty and ce-operation with fraternity.' I am certain that in this we are at one with our friends here in who are so attached fo the culture of personal dignity and democratic independence."
He then outlined French efforts to make a success of the French pavilion, dealing with the works of French thinkers, artists, inventors and man TS, Finally, he stated, "Though our country is compelled, by force of circumstances, to devote much of its strength to the organization of securty and the defence of peace, it would be erroneous to think that it has been diverted from its other tasks.
"As in the past, our country still pays tribute to the great task of general ion by incesSant researches of new technical methods and attempts to reach perfection and thus aid in the happy evolution of human society."—Havas.
Wen the baby panda, named Su-Lin, was presented to the Chicago Zoo, zoologists saw no reason to change the sex designation. Last April Ssu-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. After some days' work Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the.panda, the bear and' the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Ssu-Lin was a, male. Dr. Davis' dis-simplification of the Chinese language was germinated at Columbia University in 1916. This idea, he added, became successful within a surprisingly few years and constituted one of the elements of the Chinese renaissance.
The Chinese Ambassador was the leader of this movement. In 1915 +e went to Columbia University anà in the two years he spent there he gradually developed his ideas of a radical reform in forming the basis for the spoken language into the written language.
He even devoted himself to writing poetry in the spoken language. His article entitled "Suggestions for the Reform of Chinese Literature" formed the first manifesto of the Chinese "Literary Revolution."—United Press.
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