Chinese Lecturer

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 45, 22 May 1931, Page 2

Chinese Lecturer

Broadcast from 3YA hk. T. Z KOO, of China, at present on a visit to New Zealand, is one of the really interesting personalities of this generation. He -is making this visit at the invitation of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement, an affiliated body of the World Student Christian Federation of which Dr. Koo is the vice-chairman. Dr. Koo has had a_ remarkably diverse university experience. He graduated Master of Arts at St. J ohn’s University, Shanghai, and within the last few years he’ has done Doxtgraduate work at Oxford and at Ob iin,, U.S.A. While at Oxford, YN Koo read philosophy under Dr. Lihdsay, the Master of Baliol, and theology with Canon Streeter. T. "% Koo is in honorary Doctor of uaws of Oxford. For nine years Dr. Koo was ." the administrative department , the Chinese Railway Service. Tn "ots he joined the staff of the National Committee of the Y.M.C.A. ‘of China, of which he is now the associate general. secretary with special responsibilit! ex for the student department.* [iw T?25 1926 he was one of the travelling retaries of the World Student Chrisi'::n Federation, the first Oriental.-to. be :2)pointed to such a position. Dury those years he spent much time with the students of Europe and Americ: on whom he made a deep and_ lasting impression. In 1925 he. was one of _. three chosen by 34 Chinese * tions to represent China at the Second Opium Conference called by the League of Nations. Four things impress those who are fortunate enough to hear.Dr, Koo speak: his faultless English, his acute, analytical thinking, the practical nature of his religion with full social, national and international implications, and his passion for the higher education of his own. people. .: Dr. Koo will be heard from ‘3BYA on Monday, May 18, and on the atternoon of Sunday, May 17.