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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER 15, 1934,

two

NEW BUILDINGS FOR

GINLING COLLEGE

QUEEN BOBBIE OF ENGLAND

BEAUTY GOES ON

TRAIL OF BEAST

A degree of publicity that might be the envy of a film star has come to Miss Jullet Culpin, Walsall's new policewoman.

Over the week-end of November | Glee Club ami students of the Music 4. Ginling College, Shangchaf held | Departinent. special celebrations for the dedica- The Library Administration tion and formal opening or the Bullding contains the offices of acudentic buildings.acadente administration and a ner These exercises were in connection group of departmental olces for with the 19th Annual Founders' [the Arta faculty, These are on the Day. The new structures. complete stround door. The main floor of the academic quadrangle as planned the Library is 5 feet by 110 feel. and financially provided for du Tha- dominating colour is green. 1921-1923. The funds were-raject (There are two large reading rooma, In a joint campaign for even one at the north and the other at Oriental Wonion's College in the south. In the centre are the China, Jagan and Indies.

reading aleuven in two tiers, around a high ceiled centre. Above the there is space for stacks to hold beanted celling is the nttle in which

equipment at property upkeep. unibera of reserve book, An Alderman remarked that, if These new buildings, like the other seats are provided for 244 renders he had to be locked up, he would comic buildings and the four in alcoves and reading rooma.ke to be locked up by the new dormitories, are in the adapted The building allows generously for Chinese style and were planned by future growth.

A total of 11.8.53,800,000 wi raised, of which U.S.9690.000 was given to Guling for buildings,

Mr. Henry Killam Murphy, of New York and Shanghai. The two new

CHAPEL MUSIC BUILDING. !fldings provide the College with ¦- In the Chapel-Musle Bulking, adequate space for work which as the first floor and mezzaning are horgi done in temporary quarters given over to the work in muscle,

So impressed were the. Walch Committee by her attractive per- sonality that the Mayor, comment- ng on her looks, sald:-"People will be competing to be arrested by

her."

policewoman.

"am sorry to put temptation in your way," said the Chief Con- stable.

Miss Culpin in 24. She was born in Manchester, but her home ad- dress is Seaborne Avenue, Black- pool. She was formerly employed as a talloress, but she forsook this and became a policewoman because she was keen on social work.

"I wanted to do some good in the world," in how she puts it,

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This is front view of the handsome new Library Building t Gisling College, Nanking, which was formally dedicated in core.

monise as November 4₺.

test the last 10 years

PROGRAMME.

Format exercises were held on both Sunday and Monday after.

more

Her duties in Walsall will e largely in the direction of resette and preventive work among women and girls

Mr. Thomas Norman, with his bride, Miss Dorothy Agnes Cuff, leaving Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shangbai, after their wadding. The bride was formerly nurse in the Country Hospital. They are rending their honeymoon in Japan.

SHORTHAND REPORTING

GIFT OF EGYPT

REMARKABLE SURGERY

Sydney has now become the most

Plutarch records that shorthand (volumes which supplied time intch. important contre of surgery in the reporting was first introduced into needed key to the problem. the Roman Senate by Cleero during)

southern hemisphere, and Mr.

1 tiese papyri contained by

the triat of the Catilinarini con-happy chance the Identical-péries" Robert Jones of Singleton New spirators: and tradition has ag- of rikas That appeared on the way. South Wales, provides a remarkable cribed the earliest invention of ned tablets. They also contained example of the work that is being practicable system of alenography their translation in tonghand. Tu done. Me, Jones was born with Cineroireellina, Tion. The volume to be published by the twisted "club" feet, and had never Frontinued use of the Fizonino Egypt Exploration Society Me

COURSE DEVELOPED,

Was

There are two large stidios, 22 practice roomis, and offles and Leaching sickins.

for allowing growth in the work of the Music Move Bluse roonis is noons, The Delication Service Department. were a part of the Founders' Day the chapel which will also serve Exercirer ott Sunday afternoon, as hulituriom and concert hall, Dr. T. 11. P. Salter, of New York, eating, with the gallery, over 600 mude the address,

The chapel in On Monday afternoon. at The Formal Opening Ceremonies. Dr. ;

(columful with its red columns and H. H. Kank and Dr, Hu Shih spoke red beams with the alternation of and formal greetings were brought shutes of geven In the upper from various departments of the horizontal beams, The cross bearas national and municipal. „Movern-jis the centre are decorated with Following thear ceremonies, the bands, nud the brickets have College gave a tea fa honor of the enlour too. The room is supported zuests. In the evening, Miss by these red columns and shows Hwang Yuskwel of Somehow Univer the structural beams and rafters sity and Mr. Denjumfa Chih Chen of a Chinese rof. Windows are af Shanghai were persented in a grouped fi bays, and simple de-recognized not only as a Greek lesions. It is of greater interest | postponed until he "writes fluent- concert in the the audibrium. Į tail wives the characteristic grill- They were assisted by the Giuling; work effeck.

ients.

Mr. Cecil Thompson with his bride, Miss Hilda Mery Forster, after their marriage at Holy Trinity Cathedral Shanghal. The groom Is connected with the Asiatic, Petroleum Company, at Chicklung. The boneymoon is to be spent in Japan.

| system in the West has lent colour|11. J. M, Mine, of the Degirment able to walk. For the past to this better. But The Greeks of Manuscripts, has edited both 11 gears he has lain in a Sydney also had a tradition. In which sets ut material, and it wilt now hospital, and the suggestion

Anophon, the husporino, was be possible for the first time toecently male that his feet claimed as the originator of the see the whole system as it actuale amputated. Finally, treatment was iden. That the idea was in the worked. air at that time there is proof in

jhought From a specialist who ad- stone inscriptions from the fourth

|mitled him to his private hospital. entury 13. C., though the two apt- The material published by | There, the bones of the two feet tems of abbreviated writing this Wessely in 1895 consisted of these bedion and reel, the feet recorded are far removed from first leaf of a shorthand primer. what is now meant by shorthand, or Syllabary, with fragments of straightened and skin grafted on. The system which ultimatele others. This elementary course Within a fortnight, says Austral established itself in the Greek can now be gauged to a. fuller ex-News, Mr. Jones was able to walk world ta of unknown origin, but it tent from a papyrus in the posses. Ja little. it, is now eight months is reasonable to suppose that Tiro alon of the Egypt Exploration after the Operation, and Afr. Jones was acquainted with it. The Society, which also comes into Mr.

is adale to walk several miler und semblances can hardly be fortait. Milne's purview. The Museam ous. This system. after lone material carries the course on fu play tennis, oblivion, has been recently re-ita second stage or Commentary. covered from the sands of Egypt. The possession of such a complete

In 1887 the Department of conspectus of Greek shorthand is] 120 drachmae. Or this sum 420 Manuscripts In the British Muscam of immense value, since no reron-drachmae have been paid in ad- acquired nine wax-coated wooden struction from a stenographic, in|yance: 40 will be due "when the tabels of the third century A., D.scription, however ingenious, could boy has mastered the Cominen- inscribed with what was at once hope to offer such certain contury"; and the final instalment is shorthand but as the work of a in that we also know the terms, ly and reads faultlessly." There pupil; the symbols were repented under which, in the second century, can be little doubt that the Com- in series, obviously for practice. aspiring clerks were able to mentary referred to in that which Many attempts were made to de- acquire the it of shorthand, the Museum papyri contain or cipher these and other surviving | writing.

that the wased talilets are the examples. But the clue remained

SLAVES OF OTHER, DAYS. exercise books of a later Chaeram- Juden for nearly 40 years, in spite

1.

of the fact that Professor Wessely, Among the Oxyrhynchus papyri | of Vienna, had already in 1895 | (P. Oxy, 724) are the articles of Of the system itself there is no established certain basic prin apprenticeship of a slave ไย alpace to speak bere in any detail. ciples of the system-discoveries samt Thæng wister. The teri Unike modern Pitman, where the which have recently been extended are suficiently 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 signa rule, some relation to the moral 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,

ARAJEVO

`Of enll omen is the name on shty slano, Sarajeva, in the cockpit of which two of the three princes of Yugo Slavia, Palar, right, and Tomislay, sen theen as they took thale first air ride, near Spalato, Dalmatian elty, lo Yugo Slayin. A little more than 20 years after the world was sot ablauw by the ASTRE- iisation of the Austrian arekduke in Sarajevo, the father of the princus, King Alexander 1, was killed by an assneria in Marsailles.

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