The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

cludeS six departments, law medicine
and engineering courses being prOyid-
ed, as Well a. courses in literature,
science ana agriculture. The tota.
number Of students enrolled at this
university is about $500. The Ma
tional university at KyotO has three
faculties, law medicine and science,
the last named including engineering:
the attendance at this university is
etWeen 600 and 700. In the states
Of Choshu and Satsuma mere are
higher schools supported by funds
given by former feuCal lords Of those
states.
h education of girls is not neglect
ed. although as q rule the girls do not
go as far in their studies as the boys,
Ihere are a number Of formal schools
and - high schools for girls. besides
the PeereSSeS' school and several pr
Vate institutions. The Woman's uni
Versity at Toxic, situated near Waseda
college and under the patronage Of
Count Okuma. has had a phenomenal
career. Established only five years ago
it has now an enrolment of some 700,
and is putting up several new build
ings.
There are also a number of mis-
sionary schools and colleges. The Pres
bUterlans support three boarding
schools for boys and II for girls. be-
sides ten day schools: the total atten-
dance at these hoo is nearly 2,3G1.
The congregationalists have a mum
Der of schools, the largest, Doshfna
college at Kyoto. being the largest and
most influential Christian institution
in Japan. | had the pleasure of visiI-
ing both this college and KyOto uni
Versity.
h Methodists have IS boarding
scools and - day schools. with a to-
tai tendanc of nearly 5000. Their
college at Kobe is q very promising
Institution.
The Baptists have a theological SEM
mary an academy, five boarding
schools for girls and eight day schools.
with 4 total attendance of nearly 1000.
The Episcoptl church has also taken
an important part in educational work
while the Catholics (Who were on he
ground flrst) have over so s~eminaries,
schools and orphanages. With an at
tendance of some 5000.
The japanese government supports
more than $4,000 primary schools. at
tended by more than 5000. 600 bows
and girls; il supports more than 250
middle schools, with an Tendance
Of nearly 100, 600. While less than
two per cent. of the primary students
enter the middle school,. more than
ten per cent. of the middle school
students enter the higher colleges.
Although the figures given above
give some idea of the interest taken in
they do not furnish an ad-
equate conception of the enthusiasm
WITH which q large number of thcs4
students pursue their studies. Nearly
% young men called upon me -
wrote to me asking to be taken to
America that they might continuc
their studies. Many of the leading men
IN Japan today are graduates Of
American OF European colleges. The
physicians have shown a preference
tor Gernan schools, While to engineers
and politicians u universities have
been more attractive. A part of tha
friendliness felt toward foreigners can
be traced to the favors shown Japa
nese boys who left home in search Of
knowledge. MARQUIS Ito, one of the
first Of these, owes much to an eide,
of the Presbyterian church III Eng
land in whose home he lived ~
student. n the marquis has ever
since been making returns in kindness
to foreigners and Christians.
Marquis lto's case is not exception
al; all over Japan are men hi hold
in grateful remembrance Americans
ana Europeans to whom they are in
debted for assistance. l met a man.
now a publisher Of an influentjai
paper. who twenty years ago. at the
age Of sixteen. went to sea and in \
snlpWreck was cast upon one of the
islands in the South Pacific. He be
came d retainer of the king OF tho
islands and as such wore the scanrv
native dress. consisting of a lion cloth
He vent with <his king to Honolulu
to pay a visit to the Hawaiian. oIIaan
and finding a Japanese settlement
there, remained for two or three
years. He then went to the Tnitas
States, and making a friend of a
professor IN one of the universities
attended school there for several
years. He now visits the United Si.3-.
every year or so on business, and one
seeing nm wearing a silk hat and q
Prince ALBEIT coat would hardly @1asr
the experience by which he has fisan
10 ms present position. If Japan ho-
slnhlng % years ago with no edIca-
tlonaI system and scarcely any a1n-
ea'eu men or women. could accomp-