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Show our Chinese; students. Incidental to tho departuro of Kuanc Pino Uu, Huansr Chen. Kou TChow Li and Ta Li, tho four Chinese students at Fhilllpa-Exotcr academy, for a summer's vacation In travel, It 1b noted that theso Chines students have easily carried off tho honors in their studies at Exotor. be-1ns be-1ns honor mon In each term, and that thoy have the reputation of bclns anions tho brightest students ever enrolled at the academy. While it may administer a Jolt to American prldo to bo obliged to admit that four Chinamen so far surpass' tho averago American student In scholarship scholar-ship at one of tho leading preparatory schools of this country, jhc intellectual diligence of those four young men has a significance v,hlch Is altogether gratifying. gratify-ing. Everybody Is familiar with the return, by our government of the Indemnity paid to the United States by China is "consequence "conse-quence of tho famous Boxer uprising, and everybody Is equally familiar w Ith the fact that China, In hor gratitude at this courtesy, declared that the money should be devoted to tho education of reserving young Chlneso In American institutions of learning. She has been as good as. her vord, for tho plan was put Into operation forthwith, and by virtue of this fund a now party of Chinese youth comes to tho United States every year to enter certain cer-tain of our American schools or colleges. Almost Invariably theso Chinese students aro found to bo exceptionally able and industrious in-dustrious workers above the average In scholastic attainment and quick to grasp and apply the principles of learning. I And what then? "Wha does It all amount to ? Just this and It Is much Thoso exceptional young men, whoso ac- compllshmcnts prove them to have been selected with considerable care by their government, return to China full of enthusiasm en-thusiasm for America and American Ideas. They havo learned to see things from the American point of view and to understand American alms and aspirations aspira-tions Thoy Introduce American Ideas Into China, and thus Is established a bond of International sympathy which Is more potent In Its permanent Influenco than any othor human agency could bo. . rtrt |