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(iii) To make suggestions to the Committee on the

possibility of constituting a corresponding member or

a corresponding committee in China.

The delegation was also instructed to convey

to the Universities of China the friendly greetings of the

Universities China Committee on behalf of the Universities of

Great Britain.

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1931, and

We reached Shanghai on September 29, 1931, during our short preliminary stay in that city we were given opportunities (partly through the hospitality of Mr E.G.Hubbard

of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) of meeting

and discussing educational affairs with a number of Chinese re-

turned students from British and other universities and with

other representative Chinese and British residents who were

interested in the purpose of our visit to China. From Shanghai

we proceeded, early in October, to Tientsin, Peiping (Peking) end

Tsinan (the capital of Shantung), all of which contain some of

the leading educational institutions in China. During the next

two months we visited most of the more important universities

end colleges of north and eastern China, including Tsing Hua,

Yenching and the National Government Universities of Peiping,

Nankai at Tientsin, Cheeloo in Shantung, the Central (Chung Yang)

and Nanking Universities, various universities and colleges in

Shanghai and its neighbourhood, and Lingnan and Chung Shan Uni-

versities at Canton. In accordance with instructions, the colony

of Hong Kong and its British University were included in our

itinerary, and from its vice-chancellor and staff we obtained

valuable assistance and information. Of the "Seven Christian

Universities" of China, which are at present evolving a system of

federation, we visited four Yenching (Peiping), the Shantung

Christian University (Cheeloo) in Tsinan, the East China Federated

University at Nanking with its affiliated institutions (Ginling,

the Nanking University, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian

College) and Lingnan University (formerly Canton Christian College

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