The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-06-07
TH LANG At YALE,
.a..tions of China's New
Minister to America.
urF FUN LOVING STUDENT

10 Sir chentuns Lang
!. ExcsIlsd In Baseball and Ten
- Was a Good Fellow--class-
: 70 Give Him an Enthusiastic
come.
! LANG Tung Yen, the new Chi
.,,0ister. reaches Washington the
cabinet is likely to have an
An unless Ting" as the Yale
\, used to call him, has gone
I an athlete, says the New York
n his day he was one Of the
.ssiduous tennis players that
.aver he resembles Sir Chen
Tang Cheng, whom he will sue
= that he was a baseball pitcher
,aop Sir Chentung LANG Cheng
! twirl the sphere at Amherst.
lang did the same at Yale. He
I quite up to varsity timber, but
50 and other contests he used to
curve that puzzled the best OF
rdinary players.
q he twisted himself into a knot
mig his arms and legs about and
~ his cue execute a flank lasso
mont about his head as the ball
"a hand. the batter was pretty
. strike out. Some of the boys
Ebov couldn't tell whether it was
rive or the spectacle of the flying
bst did 1t, but out they would go.
Vale men of the late seventies
he early eighties read with pleas
bat Mr.. LANG was coming again
United States with the high rank
mister. His arrival has special
ness in view of the fact that the
Of 80 has already petitioned
ale authorities to grant him his
He was recalled by his gov
mi one year before he finished
burse.
record as a student was good.
DEVOTION to learning since has
such that the class has asked that
put on the list of alumni with
gree that he would have received
been allowed to finish his work.
thought that at the coming com
ment at Yale announcement viii
le that he is at last to be allowed
ve all the rights and privileges of
ther of Yale's sons.
Lang's classmates are already
ring to give him an enthusiastic
ne. Never was an American
ia good fellow in college than
there were several other Chi
ndents at Yale when he was
but Ting was the popular one
bunch, and he was modern
d and through with the excep-
y bis dress and a slight accent
speech that made his use of fine
d all the more delightful. The
uen-boys they will be when
l0regather with Ting soon after
EiEes-all say that he had an
iCan soul and that there never
youngster in America more keen
N than he.
was one of about si@ty or sew
picked Chinese boys sent over
N the early seventies by the gov
ent to get a modern education
% learn western ways. Yung
Of Hartford had general super
Of the lads. They went to va
preparatory schools and then en-.
American colleges. All of them
leeome expert in English before
Ehg college. Ting was educated
Hartford High school and enter,
class of 80 at Yale.
records of the university will
COW that he was one Of the high
men, He was never a grind
u acquired the American trick
ing there with the smallest
lot hard study and the largest
y o. rollicking fun. He simply
'eh In the class and was SHARP
= not to run the risk of 'fiunk
'saSor Edward Dana, who laugh
"hen Ting was in Yale, founC
.asafy one day In the classroom
ISL to Ting that perhaps /
= better for him not to fail il
~ Professor Dana went at tn,
ueuully. He said:
Daiu Ike to suggest to you tina
Y would be wise on your par
lttle more attention to you
/, 10 not think you would car,
8 down at Yale. OF course
knowledge as to what woult
% happen in your case, but /
me that you would not car
y nome for lack of efficiency Il
aes-lack of study, not of abb
anoerstand. You know bette
ast would happen if your gov
should call you home unde
nees that no matter how the
8 regarded here, might be n
disgrace there. / say yo
's1er than what would har
~ nj Jana was smiling by thi
~ ae waited for TinT's reply
said Ting.
=, arew his finger across hi
- when the class burst int