Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-21
HEAVENS SPEAKER
 BEFORE NORWICH socI


 At it's annual dinner and meeting We'd nesday evening at the Harvard club in New York city, the Norwich society of New York elected the following officers for the year at the business meeting at which President Albert s. Bard presided.
 President, Albert s. Bard; vice presi- dent, Edward Harland Miller secretary Robert L. Johnson treasurer, Charles A Beach. Members of the executive commit tee-the foregoing Officers and Rufus P. Burnham, Edward c. Ely ". Clark Hunt lngton, E. T. Kingsley, William Klein, Reginald Reynolds.
 Dickson H. Leavens, Yale 'oe, and treas urer of the College of Yale in China, son. of the late Francis J Leavens of Norwich, was the guest of the evening and the principal speaker.
 In introducing MT. Leavens, MT Bara referred to the interest which Norwich and Yale took in the Chinese students who were sent to this country in the early eighties by the Chinese government, to obtain an American education. Some of those present" he said will recall these Chinese boys, and indeed, counted them ! among their beyhood friends, A few years later the Chinese students were all l recalled to China by their government but a few refused to return and continhed their studies at Yale-a course which l rendered 9 later return to China unsafe. | In those days the students quite natural l Iy, all wore their queues. Only those who defed their government and remained to become permanent residents of America cut off their queues. This was in effect a renunciation of citizenship in China. The 1 comparatively recent revelation which turned the oldest empire in the world into a repliblic-a government which is at l an extraordinary event, the real signtfi- canoe of which remains to be seen. We are fortunate to have MT Leavens, whom we welcome, not only as a son Of Norwich but also as a son of our old and disting- ufshed Connecticut University. Yale, tc Interpret to us some ofethe changes in China as he sees them.
 Mir Leawens soolIe of conditions in
 China since the first revolution of 1911
 The last ten years have been full of civ Il wars and revolutions. Large unpatf l armies have done a good deal of footing
 and the powerful military officials have
 worked only for their selfish ends Al
 present the Pelzing government control'
 the northern half of the country, the Can
 ton government the southern part. and il
 between the Province of Human is inde pended. Financially the country i practically bankrupt, and on the surfac
 it is hard to see any hope for the future
 On the other hand, there are man
 hopeful signs. A few able and Datrioti
 leaders have arisen, and there is begin
 ming to develop 8 strong public opinior
 starting with the students, and s7,0adin 2 to other classes. These cornbine- nat IuraI resources. the intellectual ability c
 the race and the industry of the peace r Ifully inclined masses, make one optin1ist that she will muddle through the prese7 T transition period in some way. and even e ually become a strong nation.
 y Yale in China is a. college founded | 4 Yale men, to reproduce in China som i thing of the same spirit as Is found n New Haven. China must have leade . of first rate education, and at the san = time men of character and ideals, if sl ,a is not to become merely an "efficien e power and a second Germany. It is u ,e aim of Yale in China, which is pIann - to develop eventually in a Chinese staff ;. anl supported institution, to train SUI
 leaders. and this should eventually n ,s only help China, but also react fayorab .Il on China's relations with America. ly After the speaking the members we , the guests of the Harvard ell ,e in Harvard hall, at which o- series of moving pictures were shown D. shooting and fishing. The subjects i le cluding the decoying of Canadian gee. Is trout fishing. sword f1shing at CataH ye Island. a turkey hunt in Maryland, moo a. hunting in New Brunswick, and du y, hunting at Curles Neck, Virginia
 Those present were: J. H. Albertsc h. Louis M. Alofsinl M D., Anthony B. A re nold, Albert S. Bard, Charles A. Beac 1o Eon. Francis P. Bent, Rufus B. Bur m ham, Louis J Cflamansl1y, Arthur Coo nt Edward J. Crawford, Louis R. Dressl re William T. Duncan, Edward c. Ely, ,t. S. Gaylord, W. Clark Huntington. Geo. ,d l Hyde, Robert L: Johnson. Henry ne Kehgwin William B. Klein, Gilbert 1e Lamb. Dickson H Leavens Fred Lew sp Hugh F. Mclaughlin, Wdn. F. McNamal ,c. Arthur P MeWllliams, Edward H. Mill
 F. L. Messenger, Charles R. Nichols,
 IO'Brien- Marco L. Parker, Frank L. P
 ter. Edwin A. Reeves. Reginold ReynoI, 'N J. T. Riordan, Richard Schellens. Jam
 A. Somers.