Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — CHINA HONORS YALE MAN [ARTICLE]

CHINA HONORS YALE MAN

Chung Mun Yew Made Minister to United States by Oriental Republic. New York. —Chung Mun Yew, the old Yale coxswain, has been appointed minister of the Chinese republic to the United States, according tb a Shanghai dispatch to the Herald. Chung entered Yale in 1883, after preliminary studies in the Hartford (Conn.) public schools, and made the crew In the freshman year, steering the Yale shdfcl to victory against Harvard. He’s elected to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the only one of his race to be so honored. He was called back to China, before completing his studies, but returned to this country some years later and acted as an interpreter at the legation in Washington when Dr. Wu Ting-fang was minister. Previous reports have been to the effect that the post at Washington would be raised to an embassy and that Dr. Wu would be sent here as ambassador. t