The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-06
CHINA'S NEW MINISTER
 ONCE A YALE STUDENT Liang Tung Yen is Well Known by Yale Men of
 Thirty Years Ago.
RECORD AS A STUDENT
Excelled in Baseball and Tennis and Had a
 Love of Fun.

When Liang Tung Ye, the new Chi nese minister, reaches Washington the Tennis cabinet is likely to have an accession, unless Ting" as the Yale students used to call him, has gone back as an athlete. In his day he was one of the most assidouus tennis play CTS that Yale had.
 Moreover, he resembles Cir Chentung Liang- g-Cheng, whom he will succeed, in that he was baseball pitcher in col- lege, Sir Chentung Liang- -Cheng used to twirl the sphere at Amherst. MT, Liang did the same at Yale. He wasn't quite up to varsity timber, but in class and other contests he used to throw a curve that puzzled the best of the ordinary players.
 All Yale men of the late '70s and the early sos read with pleasure that Mr. Liang was coming again to this coun- try with the high rank of minister. His arrival has special timeliness in view of the fact that the class of 'S2 has already petitioned the Yale au- thorities to grant him his degree. He was recalled by his government one year before he finished his course.
 His record as student was good. His devotion to learning since has been such that the class has asked that he be put on the list of alumni with the degree that he would have received had he been allowed to finish his work. It is thought that at the coming com inencement at Yale announcementew will be made that he is at last to be allow ed to have all the rights and privileges of any other of Yales sons.
 MT. Liang's classmates are already preparing to give him an enthusiastic welcome Never was an American more of a good fellow in college than Ting.
 There were several other Chinese. stu dents at Yale when he was there, but Ting was the popular one of the bunch and he was modern through and through with the exception of his dress and a slight accent in his speech that made his use of fine English all the more delightful. The Yale men boys they will be when they foregather with Ting soon after he arrives-all %y that he had an American soul and that there never was a youngster in America more keen for fun than he. Ting was oneof about sixty or sev- enty picked Chinese boys sent over here in the early seventies by the govern ment to get a modern education, and to learn Western ways. Yung Wing of Hartford had general supervision of the lads. They went to various prepara- tory schools and then entered American colleges.
 l All of them had become expert in
 English before entering college. Ting was educated in the Hartford High ] school and entered the class of 'S2 at | Yale
 The records of the university will not show that he was one of the high
 stand men. He was never a grind. He
 soon acquired the American trick of getting there with the smallest amount of hard study, and the largest amount
 of rolllclsing fun. He simply stood
 not to run the risk of ''flunking out" A Yale alumnus in speaking of his
 return to this country said:
 1 Please do not put too strong be l diplomatic, you understand, for we are
 now sedate fellows of middle age, and
 no doubt our dear old Ting, as we used ! to call him, is nowa very dignihed per sonage, but there is just one song that
 will be applicable to our private meet
 ing with him. and 1t begins with words
 that sound something like 'Therell be a | hot time in the old town. You catch 1 the meaning; but just say it will be a
 rarely pleasant and dignifled evening 1 in the renewal of college friendships