Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

ton abroad. This school has now two
hundred students.
mary schools, they are being established
by the thousand DR.. G. ID. Tennery
who organized the middle schools of this
province several years ago. then institut-
ed over tWenty-seven hundred with
something like eighty-sx thousand stu
dents, and there are probably one third
more than that number today. This was
for the province of Pechihl, in which
Picking is situated. similar work is
being more gradually done in each of
the other twenty-odd provinces Of the
Chinese empire.
High schools and normal schools are
now to be found everywhere. Accord
ing to the regulation every town and
city has to maintain one, and every pro-
vincial capital must have a normal school
of the first grade. These schools are
all equipped with chemical, physical and
botanical labora tories, and in some of
the cities, such as Tientsin, there are also
teachers museums where models and
countries, are exhibited. The normal
schools are largely attended by those
who wish to fit themselves for work along
the lines of the new development.
Many such went to Japan at the time
the movement was started. stayed there a
year or so and have gone back to take
their places in the new education. During
my stay in Toxic last year l found some
thing like 5000 Chinese students in the
colleges there. Some were in the I'm
perial University, some in the teachers
training schools and others in the military
and technical schools and in the schools
for railway engineering. Not a few were
studying law and medicine, and some
politics. economics, history and literature.
About one-tif.h of the whole were in the
teachers training schools, and they were
largely made w of men who had stood
high in the classes and who expected TO
come back to China to teach.
[ am told that thousands of the 'literah
went to Japan at the time it was decided
by the government to open UP China to
the new education, and that especially
because the government had said that 1T
would give the preference to literary grad
yates who had such instruction i'll the Sc
lection of its teachers for its new schools.
On this account 10000 went there at
once and enrolled themselves The most
Of them stayed less than six months and
then came back to teach Nearly all have
received appointments and are now act
ing as professors. They are not fitted for
the higher branches Of modern instruc-
ton; but they believe in the new educa-
ton, and by this action of the govern
stead Of it's enemies. as they probably
would have been had they not been given
the chance to teach.
During my stay here in Picking / have
visited many of the higher schools and
colleges. This city has it's law schools,
government and medical schools. One
of the law schools was founded by WI
T1ng-fang two years ago, and 1t now
has SEQ students. 1t teaches law and
government as well as political science,
nm
some of the lectures.
There is also a language school of high
grade where Chinese boys are prepared
for the foreign Office and for the diplo-
matte service abroad. This school al
ready has 300 students It is open to
any who can pass the entrance examina-
tions and give certificates of good char
acter In addition to the modern Ian
guages. the school gives Il good academi-
cal education along foreign Ines. Every
boy is required to take at least one
foreign language. He may choose either