NEW BUILDINGS FOR
GINLING COLLÉGE
Over the week-end of Noyember; Glee Club and students of the Musie 1. Ginling College, Shanghal held Department,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934,
QUEEN BOBBIĘ OF ENGLAND
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A'degree of publicity that might be the envy of a film-star has come to Miss Juliet Calpin, Walsall's new policewoman.
special celebrations for the dedica The Library - Administention tion and format opening the Building contains the oflees of two new academie buildings, academic administration and These exercisen were in connection group of departmental oflees for with the 19th Annual Founders' the Arta faculty. These are on the Day. The new structures complete scround flour. The main flour of the academic quadrangle as planned the Library in 51 feet by 110 feet. and financially provides for in dominating colour is green. 1921-1023. The funds were raised There are two large reading rooms,
So impressed were the Watch in a joint campaign for seven one at the north and the other at Committee by her attractive per- Oriental Women's College in the south. In the centre are the sonality that the Mayor, comment- China, Japan and India.
radin alcoves in two tiera, arounding on her looks, aald:-"People In high rolled centre. Above the will be competing to be arrested by
A total of US$3,000,000 seamed reiling is the attle in which her." rained, of which US$600,000 was there is space for stacks to holdi given to Ginling for buildings. equipment and property upkeep. are umbers of reserve boka.
future growth,
An Alderman remarked that, if
I policewoman,
These new buildings, like the other Seats are provided for 214 renders he had to be locked up, he would ↓ academic buildings and the four loves and reading rooms. dormitories, are in the adaptent The building allows generously for like to be locked up by the new Chinese style and were planned by Mr. Henry Killam Murphy, of New
CHAPEL MUSIC BUILDING. York and Shanghai. The two new buildings provide the College with In the Chapel-Music Building.] adequate space for work which was the first floor and mezzanine are been done in temenry quarters given over to the work in music,
This is front view of the handsome new Library Building at Ginling College, Nanking, which was formally dedicated in cere.
monies on November 4.
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Miss Culpin is 24.. She was born in Manchester, but her home ad- dress in Seaborne Avenue, Black- pool. She was formerly employed na tailoreas, but she forsook this and became a policewoman becaumg she was keen on social work.
"I wanted to do some goud in the world." is how she puts it,
Her duties in Walsall wil lie largely in the direction of resente nud preventive work among women and Rith.
Mr. Thomas Norman, with his bride, Miss Dorothy Arnis Cuff, leaving Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, after their wedding. The bride was formerly a nurse in the Country Hospital. They are arending their honeymoon in Japan.
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GIFT OF EGYPT
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Sydney has now become the most
Plutarch records that shorthand-fvolumes which supplied the much-¦ fimportant centro of surgery in the reporting was first introduced into needed key to the problem.
outhern hemisphere. These papyri contained his a
and Mr.
the trial of the Catilinarian con-happy chance the identical series Robert Jones of Singleton, New
the Roman Senate by Cicero during
spirators: and trad Hon Bird cribed the earliest invention of je tablets. They also contained example of the work that is being [03 signs that appeared on the wax- South Wales, provides a remarkable practicable system of stenography their translation in lunghand. In done, Mr. Jones was barn with o Cieeros Freedman, Tiro. The volume to be published by the twisted "Club" feel, and had rever continued use of the Tironian Egypt Exploration Society MP, ben able to walk. aystem in the West bas lent colour H. J. M. Milne, of the Department
For the past to this belief. But the Greeks of Manuscripts, has also had a tradition, in which sets of material, and it will now hospital, and the suggestion was editest both 11 years he has lin in n Sydney mophon. the historian, Ther
was be possible for the Brst time to recently made that his feet be twe large studios, 22 claimed as the originator of the ace the whole system as il actually amputated. Finally, treatment was practice roots, and offees and † idea. That the idea was in the worked. teaching studios, – allowing for air at that time there is proof fa COURSE DEVELOPED.
raught from a specialist who ad- Formal exercises wore heki un growth in the work of the Mustestone inscriptions from the fourth
mitted him to his private hospital. both Sunday and Monday after.
Abine there rooms is
entury B., though the two sya. | The material published The Dedication Services Department.
by There, the bones of the two feet DOODS,
tems of abbreviated writing the Wassely in 1895 consisted of the and regel, the feet were a part of the Founders Day the chapel which will also serve recorded are far removed from first leaf of a shorthand primer straightened and skin grafted on.
what is now meant by shorthand, or Syllabary, with fragments of The aystem which ultimately others. This elementary coura
fortnight, anys Austral established itself in the Greek can now be gauged to a fuller ex- News, Mr. Jones was able to walk. is reasonable to suppose that Tiro sion of the Egypt Exploration after operation, and Mr. Jones world is of unknown origin, but it tent from a papyrus in the posses a little it is now eight months was acquainted with it. The Society, which alan comes into Mr. semblances can hardly be fortuit- Milne's purview.
is able to walk several miles and The Museum ona. This system, after long material carries the course on to play trans. oblivion, has been recently reits second stage or Commentary. -.. covered from the sands of Egypt. The possession of such a complete
Exercises 1723 Sunday afternoon, as auditorium t d concert hall. Dr. T. II. P. Sutter, of New York, (seating, with the gallery, over 600 maile the andross,
JETADOS, The chapel Is more
On Monday afternoon, at the
Formal Opening Ceremonies, Dr. colourful with its red columns and H. 1. Kung and Dr. Hu Shih spokej ted brama with the alternation of and formal greetings were brought shades of green in the upper from various departments of the horizontal beams. The cross beams national....und ... municipal powern-in the centre are decorated with pients.
Following the ceremonies, the bonds, and the brackets have College gave a tea in honour of the enlour too. The room is supported guests. In the evening. Miss by these rest columns and shows Iwang Yu-kwei of Sowhow Univer-The structurn) Beams and rafters alty and Mr. Benjamin Chih Chen of a Chinese roof, Windows are of Shanghai were pa sented in grouped to bays, and simple de concert in the new auditorium, tail gives the characteristle grin They were assisted by the Ginling work effect,
Mr. Cecil Thompson with his bride. Misa Hilda Mary Forster, after their marriage ut Holy Trinity Cathedral Shanghai. The groom Ja connected with the Asiatic Petroleum Company, at Chinkiang. The honeymoon is to be spent in Japan.
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In 1887 the Department of conspectus of Greek shorthanet is 120 drachmae. Of this sum Manuscripts in the British Museum of immense value, since no recon- drachmne have been paid in ad- acquired nine wax-coated wooden struction from a stenographic in vance: 40 will be due "when the abets of the third century A. D.scription, however ingenious, could boy has mastered the Commen- inscribed with what was at once hope to offer such certain recognized not only a Greek clusions. It is of greater interest postponed until he "writes fluent contary" and the final instalment in shorthand but as the work of a in that we also know the terms ly and reads faultlessly." pup; the symbols ware repeated under which, In the second century, can be little doubt that the Com- in serien, obviously for practice aspiring clerks were able to mentary referred to is that which Many attempts were made to de- acquire the art of shorthand the Museum papyri contain, or cipher there and other surviving writing..
that the waxed tablets are the examples. But the elue remained
SLAVES, OF OTHER DAYS. "xernise books of a later Chaeram- sudden for nearly 10 years, in spite
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of the fact that Professor Wensely, Among the Oxyrhynchas papyri | of Vienna, had already in 1895 (P. Oxy. 724) are the articles of, Of the system itself there established certain basic prin apprenticeship of a slave th alspace to apunk here in any detail. ciples of the system-discoveries soortan w.ytet. The terms Unlike modern Pitman, where the which have recently been extended jare sufficiently entertaining. signs are purely arbitrary, the by Professor Mentz, of Konigsberg. The slave, Chaerammon. Is to Greek shorthand forms bear, as a It began to look as if full inter-study for two years "The signsĮ rule, some relation to the mural pretation was impossible. Then, which your son Dionysius knows" longhand of the letter, of which in 1924, the British Museum pur (the arrangement is made with the distinctive element is chosen chased two third-century papyrus Dionysius's father) for a fee, of to represent the whole.
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Of well omen is the nema on thie miens, Suraiavo, in the cockpit of which two of the three princes of Yugo Slavin, Petar, right, and Tomislaw, ara ab *** me they took their first air ride, near Spalato, Dalmatian city in Yugo Slavia. A little more than 29 years after the world was set ablaze by the usat- sination of the Austrian archduk» in Sarajevo, the father of the princes, King Alexander 1, was killed «by an desassin-in Marseilles.
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