Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 2 | Filipinos for Yale

FILIPINOS FOR YALE May lay Arrange to Educate a Few Natives as an an Experiment YORI Gov Gi Gov Taft of NEW YORK Feb Fob 11 the he Philippines has arrived In this city from Crom Washington My visit to this this' city Is purely a B. family amily affair he be said raid We have arranged arranged ar- ar ranged a a. kInd kind of reunion my reunion my mother and aunt and my brothers brother s family family- Gov Taft Taft consented however to tc- talk about native education He said You ou eu Vill will rem that it was as pro pro- to educate a a. few young ng Filipinos at Yale a as an experiment experiment- and p. p perhaps rha s InItiative So far nothing has been done done But I I. I had 1 t lk with with President ladley Hadley the other day in Washington and I may may run run up to New Haven soon soo soon as s the matter is of importance I Of cour ourse coue e the difficulty Is that a native cant can't be suddenly Imported to this country courtry and thrust Into the higher edu edu- cation He lie must be caught young and adequately prepared Looking to this end we shall have higher schools in hl the island he-island island that will willbe be a stepping stone to o our eur universities I haye have given my promise to return to o the islands by M May y 1st which will mean my leaving this country on en April 1st I hope I shall be a able le oJ that promise