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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

President <strong>of</strong> Columbia: Prompt<br />

Invitation for Columbia Study<br />

By Wang Liqiong<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2005—04—08<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=113187648<br />

<strong>Peking</strong>, Beijing, April, 8th, 2005: The Columbia president invited questioners<br />

immediately to study in Columbia as exchange students in the ceremony <strong>of</strong> his<br />

awarded honorary doctoral degree by <strong>PKU</strong> Board <strong>of</strong> Directors, whose predecessor<br />

was once awarded honorary pr<strong>of</strong>essor in 1999.<br />

Delegates <strong>of</strong> university presidents gave unanimous okay to welcome a student who<br />

was praised with her influent Spanish by President Alvaro Uribe Velezy. The<br />

audience who were mainly Spanish majors was greatly encouraged and many posed<br />

their opinions with Spanish.<br />

Mr. President showed his deep love on youth and expected their great contribution<br />

for two countries‘ friendly exchanges and long-lasting partnership. He expressed that<br />

he wanted to plant a tree, meaning a sign <strong>of</strong> friendship between two countries, a<br />

symbol <strong>of</strong> joint efforts, a expectation <strong>of</strong> happy lives <strong>of</strong> next generation, a respect for<br />

human greenly environment<br />

With his 37 delegates in educational field, Mr. President said this visit was supposed<br />

to intense the educational cooperation between Columbia and <strong>PKU</strong> as well as other<br />

Chinese university. After the ceremony, the round table conference has been held to<br />

discuss the detailed cooperative projects in high education field.<br />

Mr. President also lectured his understanding <strong>of</strong> Confucius‘ benevolence and the<br />

ideal international relations <strong>of</strong> coexistence, Hegel‘s dialectics and the integrated<br />

creative development in China through Mao and Deng to new leading generation.<br />

Edited By : Liu Li<br />

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