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Show 1 U- S. STUDENTS FRIVOLOUS? If his complexion were a shads lighter, a short heavy, spectacled man who has been nearly a month fn this country studying conditions and lecturing lec-turing at universities, could easily pose as Rudyarci Kipling, the great English author. He is Dr. Inazol Kitobe, Tokyo, Japan. So much does Dr. Xitobe resemble Rudyard Kipling, at one view of his countenance, thai; it is really startling. But it is a one view effect only. When he turns again he looks only like the typical Japanese Japa-nese that he is. His mind is filled with impressions impres-sions that are registered by two sharp brown eyes that look through heavy spectacles. Dr. Nitobe, who has been studying the country, and its people, and Incidentally has been giving some thought to the student while lecturing at universities, is the first representative representa-tive of the pedagogues who are to come to this country under the ar rangement provided by means of the Carnegie fund. Dr. Nitobe is president of First Higher college of Tokyo. He says that be does not find the boy students in the United States oc-Y oc-Y - cupying the high moral plane that he had expected. Also that he' observed that the men are for less serious in the work than the Japanese students. V "In this country there is not the application that is characteristic of the Japanese students," said Dr. Nitobe. "Here one finds less gilnding, less r midnight oil is burned and there is less disposition to take the course seri ously. Probably we are too serious in Japan. I sometimes think we are. Yet I do not think that the average student here really has his heart in the work." .1 |
