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Show ADVANCING EDUCATION IN CHINA iKr.m Consaf General George K. An-desson, An-desson, Hongkong.) Tho return of tho governor general of tho colony of Hongkong after several sev-eral months In Great Britain, lnrgely to securo a ?.ri0n,000 endowment for founding a university under British interests hole, hns brought the mntter of higher education In China to a critical crit-ical point. It seems also thai there Is a movement move-ment lu Gjoat Britain toward ostab , Hailing a. similar Institution In north China (the Ynngs'to Valley K which Is somewhat a rival movement. However, 'It Is understood that the work of tho governor or Hongkong hTTs. beqn . successful, suc-cessful, nnd that tho Hongkong linl- i verslty Is to bo realized at ouce. t Tho design of tho govornor Is to ea-tabllsh ea-tabllsh a' university In Hongkong of such a, scojio and standing that the young men of China niny" secure im advanced education nnd dogroos equal to, those granted by universities In Europe nnd America. The university is to be nonsectnrlan, although not free from moral Influence and restraint. Kor exnmple, students from mission colleges lu China attending the university uni-versity nro to bo maintained In mission mis-sion houses, corresponding to fraternity frater-nity houses In American universities, whllo those students from Chinese governmental gov-ernmental schools, whom It Is desired to keep apart from mission influences, will be In similar establishments controlled con-trolled by proper Chinese authority. While tho university Is to bo non-sectarian, non-sectarian, It Is calculated to advance British Interests In China. For this reason thore Is said to be moro or loss qUloUflPPOsltlon to tho enterprise In China. Its work will bo along literary lines, medicine, In engineering and economics, econ-omics, hut not In lnw. Significance of the University Movements. Move-ments. It Is significant that thoso movements move-ments havo como nt tho Biimo time, nnd It Is quite evldont that within five years of the chnngo In educational educa-tional methods In China tho uctunl present need of' advanced university advantages has been felL This Is Indicated In-dicated from nnothor standpoint In tho now railway school at Poking, whoro-In whoro-In Chlnoso studonts, q,,nllfled thorofor by work done elsowhoro, pursuo advanced ad-vanced work calculated to fit thorn for constructing and operating railways rail-ways In China. In short, throughout the omplro there Is Indlcatod a. need for ndvnncod unlvorslty work and nn appreciation of the practical advnn- - - - m mm - f , f , ' -Kr tuges.of a university training in cqn-nectlon cqn-nectlon with China's Industiinl, com-'inerclal, com-'inerclal, and general economic "dovel- - fl) opuient. ' The nosent demand for university work Is In anticipation of general f'hlnese government plans" ror colleges nnd univorsltlds, iiniiou"ucel lu Its educational edu-cational reform 'edict of rive ears ug6, bht which was impossible to Inaugurate In-augurate In all Its entirety nt Alice. Chinese Universities and Schools. Under t,hc governmental plan each province Is to havo Its, university -which starts' with tho clenjentary flchools In each vlllagp, tho higher or. grammar grudo sghpols, tho high schools," In 'escendlng scale, nil controlled con-trolled by- provincial boards, or educaC ' tlon whlbh Vet moro or less directly v 'through subordinate lioiirds In ench., taotal's-'hiid RUb-maglstrato's district. The. elemontary schools como first. Few government establishments havo yet reached full' college' grade, largely becuuso of lack or money, but In mnny cases because of lack of studonts who hnvo progressed In western lcnrnlg far enough to begin proper college work. Into statistics report tho total number of educational Institutions In Chlnn at 35,188, ot which primary schools number 34,210, high schools, colleges, girls' somlnnrles, nnd Indus-, trial schools making up tho balance. They report (33,937 persons engaged'' In oducationnl work, 55,240 being at, work In elementary grades, In theso sovernl Institutions there are 874,842 studonts, bf which 780,325 nre of cle-" mentary grndo. Tnklng 406,180,000 nst tho population of Chlnn, this gives, ono student for ench 464 lnhnbltonts.'. These figures, while not showing ex- actly what Institutions they Include, glvo somo" Idea of what hns been ac-. compllshcd in the past few yenrs and , what may reasonably ho expected in"-tho in"-tho course of the next few yenrs. |