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Show oo i THE CONQUEST OT i EDUCATION. When, after thp Boxer uprising In China, America rplpased China from j the indemnity awarded in this coun- j try. i.nd. InetSSd, opened tho way fori au influx of Chinese students to be educated in our highpr institutions of i learning, tho benefits to be derived I from this method of friendly assimi lation were disclosed. Thousands of Chinese graduates of our college.', ou tcring government offices and busi- m n Irclea in the Flowery Kingdom, became advocates of American com rr. rce :nd champions of American policies pol-icies m world affairs. When' Cecil Khodes gave his fortune to foreign eholarshlps at Oxford, the famous English mining man, under-1 stood the advantages to be gained bj bringing young men of other countries In close contact with the highest re-1 flnenie:. of English life. Of late there has been started in , the United States, under the Pan American Union, a campaign to lirmr Latin-American boys to American col-1 and to send American boys to South American. As outlined by Hal kin, tho plan is this : II a boy In Mexico or Chile or tho Argtr.tine or any other Latln-Ameri can country wants to come to the j United States for his education, the I Pan American Union here will make all arrangements for him. It can vej likely obtain him a scholarship, it will 1 find work for him after his graduation so that he may get practical exper ienee to round off his education, and in general it will act as his friend and ad iv r. Likewise, if a boy in the United Slates wants to go to a Latln-Ameri can country for his education in order to learn the language and the laws of j that country, the Pan-American Union I Will give him assistance In finding I what he wants. Tho best friends the j United States has In Latin-America I are the numerous native graduates of ' Cornell, Yale, the L'niversity of Penn lylvanta, and other American colleges, i who are scattered all through Latin J America, from Mexico to thp Argen tine. Throughout those countries j there are United States university J clubs, made up of the alumni of American universities, some of whom are natives of the United States and some of the countries in which the j club b located. Needless to say. these clubs are centers, of Pan-American friendship. There are today about 5000 students from Latin America in schools and colleges in the United States. Naturally the number of American who go lo South America lo study Is much smaller, but the union un-ion emphasizes the value of that side of the movement, loo. There are great onnortunities In South America, and j the young man who has studied there is in a good position to takp advantage of them. |