YENCHING UNIVERSITY
(Incorporated 1889 as PEKING UNIVERSITY)
PEKING, CHINA

AMERICAN OFFICE
150 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

August 12, 1931

OFFICERS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
LUTHER B. WILSON, HONORARY PRESIDENT
FRANKLIN H. WARNER, PRESIDENT
WILLIAM P. SCHELL, VICE-PRESIDENT
E. M. MCBRIER, TREASURER
ERIC M. NORTH, SECY. AND ASST. TREAS.
B. A. GARSIDE, ASST. SECY. AND ASST. TREAS.
OLIN D. WANNAMAKER, ASSISTANT TO
THE PRESIDENT

OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
J. LEIGHTON STUART, PRESIDENT
HENRY W. LUCE, VICE-PRESIDENT
WU LEI-CHUAN, VICE-PRESIDENT

Mr. B. A. Garside,
China Union Universities,
150 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Garside:

I have your letter of July 8th about the committee
on joint organization for administration and finance of
Christian colleges in China and can report to the effect that
I am on deck now until further orders, vacations being passed.

I wish you would devise a scheme and then we will
all cooperate to put it across.

Committee for Christian Colleges in China

October 6, 1932.

Dr. Eric M. North,
Bible House,
Astor Place,
New York City.

My dear Dr. North:

We are bowing to your request to be relieved from the C.C.C.C.
Executive Committee and so have not tried to prevail upon you to call
called for tomorrow afternoon.

I am, however, venturing to send you a docket of the meeting
together with the material we are appending thereto. Your experience and
judgment would be invaluable in the discussion of the matters coming before
the Committee tomorrow relative to the possible methods or organizing the
proposed Associated Board. We are bringing to the attention of the
Committee suggested outlines for a Constitution and By-Laws of the Associated
Boards, with the thought that this will help us all to visualize clearly
what this organization may do and how it may function. We have no expectation,
or desire, that the Constitution and By-Laws as finally adopted will follow,
or even approximately, the lines suggested in these proposals, but at least
they will provide a target for folks to shoot at.

We hope that you may weaken at the last moment, and agree to attend the
meeting tomorrow afternoon; but if this is impossible, I would very much
appreciate an opportunity to obtain from you at your convenience your
suggestions and criticisms of these proposals.

Eric M. North

Bible House, Astor Place
New York City
32 Badeau Avenue
Summit, New Jersey

January 13, 1936

Dr. B. A. Garside,
150 Fifth Avenue,
New York City, N.Y.

Dear Garside:

I want to express my very deep personal appreciation of the Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Associated Boards and particularly for your personal note that came with the Resolution. It has meant a great deal to me to have had relationship to enterprises to which father gave so much thought and encouragement and now that he has gone the words of sympathy and appreciation of him which have come from those who are concerned in these enterprises have been of very great help to me. It has been really marvelous to find how many of those who worked beside him in the varied lines of his long life's activity have been eager to pay tribute to what he meant to them.

Thank you again and again for writing.

Dr. E. W. Wallace - 2/26/29

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You may feel diffident about pushing the latter since you feel you know it less, but you know and can find out enough to push the process of consideration along. Has the committee had before it an analysis of the present income of the institutions, the sources and constituencies from which these are drawn, raised the query as to other possible sources and constituencies and endeavored to see how a campaign could be blocked out? I think it could well shape some tentative findings, in the course of a month which might help along the visualization of the row that has yet to be hoed.

a bit back!

Cheer up! You've more resources yourself than you had

EMN:HR

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

ERIC MCCOY NORTH
GENERAL SECRETARY

BIBLE HOUSE
ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK CITY

December 28, 1935

The Associated Boards for
Christian Colleges,
150 Fifth Avenue,
New York City, N.Y.

Dear Friends:

Your message of sympathy and of appreciation of my father, Dr. Frank Mason North, conveyed in the beautiful spray of glorious roses, has meant a great deal to Mrs. North, my mother, and to our family as we came so swiftly upon days of sorrow. We have been lifted and strengthened by the tide of loving understanding and of recognition of what he was which has flowed toward us.

As a missionary administrator father had served on the Boards of at least four of the China Colleges and of one or two he was for a time the principal executive in New York. His interest in them was born of a life-long experience and conviction as to the true dependence of noble culture and skilled professional capacity upon Christian faith and purpose and upon the value of culture and skill to the cause of Christ.

Your expression of regard for him we deeply value, knowing that it comes from those who then and now share his convictions and his hopes.

Eric M. North