British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin with live oaks and the scattered ashes of one of the founding members of the seminar. On arrival at the seminar, the participants help themselves to a glass of Tio Pepe or Dry Sack sherry, though teetotalers prefer cranberry juice. Sherry has come to symbolize the attitude. The seminar meets to examine in a civilized way whatever happens to be on the agenda, Scottish or Indian, Canadian or Jamaican, English or Australian. The discussion is civil, but sometimes grows a bit heated. What makes the debate engrossing is the clash of different perspectives—including those of lawyers, physicians, retired ambassadors, and
Tio Tek Ho in the corruption, but ended his tenure in 1907 in what many viewed as rather shameful circumstances. Soon after his resignation, the former Majoor died in January 1908. He was succeeded eventually in 1910 by the son-in-law of the progressive Phoa Keng Hek, Khouw Kim An, the fifth and last Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia. Tio Tek Ho Tio Tek Ho, 4th Majoor der Chinezen (; 1857 - 1908) was a Chinese-Indonesian bureaucrat who served as the fourth and penultimate "Majoor der Chinezen", or Chinese headman, of Batavia, now Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. This was the most senior Chinese position