Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE
STUDENTS AMERICAN ED.
UcATIoN.
UNITED STATES WILL
BENEFIT MUCH BY PLAN
Students Will Return Homo lmbued
With American Ideas and Sympathy
For American institutions and Will
Enter tho Chinese Civil Service -
"Boxer" Money Well Spent.
Especial Correspondence.1

Washington, Sept. 30.-A party of
forty young Chinese students are
about leaving their native country for
the United States, to enter colleges in
this country. They are the first Of the
large corps of students whom China
will send, under the auspices of the
imperial government, to acquire occi-
dental educations in the United States
These young men will return to
China with western educations, to take
places in the civil service of their own
country. Their education will be paid
for by their home government, from
the proceeds of the boxer indemnity"
which President Roosevelt, after it had
been paid to the United States, ordered
to be paid back TO the Chinese govern
ment. The imperial authorities We're so
gratified with this unexpected and UNI
paralleled manifestation of good will
that the plan was at once adopted. of
using the fund to educate young Chin
csc in American schools Thus the gen
crosby of the United States will bear
fruit in the creating of a great class
of Chinese officials with American edu-
cation, training and sympathies
1t is the intention to maintain at all
times about 400 of these students in
the United States. One hundred will
come each year for the first four years.
and after that fifty per<annum The
course will be eight years, so that
there Will be about 400 here at all
times after the plan is working. The
boys will be sent here at the age of
about IA
Students Selected With Care.
The Picking government has recently
approved the rules and regulations for
management and selection of these
students. A bureau. the American edu-
cational mission bureau, has been Gre
ated for this purpose. 1t represents
jointly the educational board and the
board of foreign affairs, and Is to con-
suit with the American diplomatic
representative, or an agent selected by
him. at Picking. A preparatory school
will be established at Picking for tenn
porary schooling of candidates for the
American classes. This will be oper-
ated as an American preparatory insti-
tuition the management, manners. Gus
toms. etc, being such as to fit the
young men for the transition to Amer
l.
Two classes of students will enter it.
First, those under IL years. of good
general Chinese education and of test
ed abilities; second. those under 90
years. with both the Chinese equip
ment As good grounding in English
language and occidental educational
branches, and who may be regarded as
well on the way to equipment for uni
versities and technical Schools.
These students are to be selected
much as candidates for the Cecil
Rhodes scholarships are chosen in the
United States. Not only the necessary
intellectual qualificat tons must be
shown, but also good physique, char
acter and ancestry. Every part of
China is to be represented in proper
ton to population Students too poor
TO sustain themselves will be main
tanned from the fund, up to $500 per
annum.