Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-08-04 | Page 4 | American Universities Aiding China Against Communise

American Universities Aiding China Against Against- s V Referring to the recent declaration of ot V. V T. T Soong minister of f o of the national g government of China that his country Is facing a Ute life and death struggle between the tiac Chinese social and economic system and the communist system introduced from Soviet Russia as of ot unusual importance tance lance in connection with the work being done by directed American In of ot learning In China today to day the Princeton foundation foundation foundation tion in hi New York City has Just issued a n. statement covering the steps taken b by such uch ins institutions to cooperate with the Chinese government in fighting the threat of ot doctrine The statement based upon a J. J survey survey survey sur sur- vey of the work done by the Prince Prince- t ton foundation in China during the past year rear deals largely with the stress now now being laid by American educators there and particularly par par- at the Princeton school of at public affairs at university upon develop develop- ment of ot the social sciences to a degree de de- de uree gree comparable with that of or the physical university which Is one of ot the leading Christian Institutions o of higher education in China and which Is operating with the active cooperation of P Princeton Harvard and other American universities reports reports re reo re- re ports that as a result of ot the emphasis now being placed upon the subject last years year's enrollment figures In departments departments departments de de- de- de having the largest number of ot major students were as follows Economics 99 sociology and social work 59 nautical science and Inns Juris pr prudence C t together i 55 55 chemistry 42 42 education 37 history 30 and Chinese Chinese Chi nese 30 In each of the tIle three departments dealing with the social sciences the foundations foundation's survey shows advanced students are being drawn Into the various aspects of at the extensive work of research and application being carried ou out so far faras as possible by the faculty During the year a community experiment ex ex- ex station was set up at the village of Ho a typical north China community of only some six sL miles mUes from Here In Inthe inthe the field laboratory data have ha been obtained through the cooperation of the villagers which pr present the t-the the bi be for solution of various pressing p pi Jems lems of Chinese and rural life J those which affect farand far faa and child chUd welfare rural credit mass education In addition the same sanie depths of sociology and social work hn haI operated with the public welfare reau of ot la in making king a saw cu of poverty and in study and fee rec of at means to remedy i e c among the poor In lit like Lien m mner ner ncr through agreement with bureau of public health p He health work has been In the university neighborhood ut us direction of ot the comptroller of of university Incidentally the then It RS shows a a. home for aged women ome I been established under auspices In the the economic field fed Iii larj through th the initiative itla ve of t Potes J. J B. B Tayler of rigia kp dep ment of economics Intensive sic tt Is being devoted to the d develops o of Chinas China's scale nas na's small scale indus Y special attention to an of the habits of ot the people t to t I new type of organization in inthe the modern n mill ll and fact factory y a ato to tIle the training of at efficient Similar wort it Is 13 e explained is be bel el carried forward at 1 In Canton another dire American n Christian institution where aiM IIiI la num number r of students are enrolled curdled a wholly modem school of The cumulative effect of such program the foundation reels feels n m result In n providing an intellectual b work wark against the allurements allurement of o CO propaganda n a