Bulletin of Catholic University of Peking

March 4, 1028:

March 10, 1928:

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PEKING 79

the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dom Theodore was also a pupil of the celebrated Sinologist De Groote. Dom Theodore’s knowledge of Chinese literature is scientific and profound, and to learning he adds the accomplishment of speaking the language with great accuracy and fluency.

Dom Sylvester Healy took his Triennial Vows at the nine o'clock Mass, in the University Chapel. The Rev. Carl Rauth, M.A., was invested with the cowl as a Benedictine novice at the same ceremony, which was presided over by the Very Rev. Prior Ildephonse Brandstetter, O.'S.B. In the afternoon, the Monthly Luncheon of the University Faculty was held at the Wagon-Lits Hotel. Speeches were made by Dom Theodore Breher, O.S.B., by the Rector, the Vice-Rector, and by Mr.

Shen Chien-shih, Professor of Advanced Chinese Studies at the

National University, and Lecturer in Etymology at the Catholic University of Peking.

Sir Theodore F. MacManus, LL.D., of Detroit, was invested as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and made a member of the Confraternity of St. Benedict by the Rt. Rev. Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, O.S.B., DAD Chancellor of the Catholic University of Peking.

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