Arizona republican., 1910-11-06
A CHINESE UNIVERSITY.
Students Attend Lectures All Day and
 Six Days in the Week.

Closely hugging the gray walls of
 the yellow tiled Forbidden City lie the low, rambling buildings of the Imperial
 University of Pekin. Like Chinese houses these buildings are usually of one stry. seldom of more than two.
 built about small square courts which open upon each other through broad gateways.
 Within these gray brick walls. says a
 writer in the Independent, are found simple rooms for the giving and hear ing of lectures provided with desks and
 benches, and also rooms fitted up as elementary laboratories of science.
 Museums too of a simple character are here established and d library filled up largely with soft, thin, many leaved volumes of the Chinese classics. These buildings, like the older buildings of so many German universities, were not made for universities, were not made for university purposes but were built as palaces, simple and transformations
 The Chinese student physically is not robust. He has the scholars stoop and the scholars paleness of com plexion. To him, as to his nation. tu- beculosis is a grave peril. tuberculosis affecting other organs as well as the lungs. His life is not wholesome. He sleeps in a small room, unventilated, and probably with two or three chums.
 He exercises little. His food is not of that nutritious type which most American students eat Athletic sports l,., ;,,l f,, l.,,f To. citation football he plays and fairly well. A typical program of intercol- legiate sports includes a 1OO-yard dash, the high jump, the l."le vault, 220-yard run and the broad jump, as well as a football game.
 The mind of the student is by nature better than his body. The Chinese mind is in it's original constitution one of fairly good strength and fiber. but its original forces have been impaired by centuries of unreasoning education and enslaving customs. It is mind given to forms, steeped in fOrmalism, subjected to precedents, devoid of ori- ginality. as the will is of initiative. ab- sorbing fact and fable and fancy as well as truth through vast energy and retentive memory.
 It is a mind literary, not scientific. For thousand years the Chinese have not studied science. The student has small liking for mathematics; he pre- fers chemistry to physics, and his lik- ing for physics is measured by the small amount of mathematics included "a condition, perhaps, which is char acterist of other minds than the Chin ese. The mind is not, moreover, an ac- curate mind. It is. like the Chinese mechanic content with being and with doing things about right"
 It is. be it said. a laborious mind. Thirty or more lectures a week the stu-. dent attends and takes notes of. The six days of each week, without any Saturday whole or half holiday, are filled with lectures, and the evenings and Sundays are the only time left for reading, studying notes or reflection.
 The learning and the understanding and the physical writing of his dread full language is a form of his educa- tion to which he must give much time and heedfulness. A bottomless pit is this language, for it's characters seem endless. If a Romanized Mandarian script could be adopted Chinese educa- tion would go forward far less slowly The teachers are gathered from all parts of the world. England. Germany. Japan. the United States provide the larger number of foreigners. These men are called to teach subjects which are foreign to the Chinse mind. The Chinese have a belief that topics for eign to them can best be taught by for eign teachers. as they similarly believe that their official foreign office should i be built in a foreign style of archi- ! lecture
 English is therefore taught by those ! who speak English, German by those who speak German and the sciences ! and mediaeval history. also foreign, by foreigners. Be it said that the Chinese i teachers are held in higher honor than 1 the foreign, though the salary of the ' native is only one-siXth as great. The 1, number of foreign teachers is today | smaller than a decade ago, when the l great Martin had gathered about him J a noble faculty.
 Perhaps the least worthy instruction , given in the higher education in China i s found in medicine. The mediavelism | If China receives. it's most impressive | in the character of this teaching. A single fact is profoundly i md harrowingly significant. It is the 'act that never in this vast and ancient ] empire has the human body been dis sected for scientific purposes. The