Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-10-05
MANY CHINESE At
STATE UNIVERSITY
Are Given Scholarships by the
Government.
TESTS ARE MOST SEVERE
The Boxer Indemnity Fund Provides
for the Education of Four Hun
dred orientals Each Year
In America.

Madison.-The enrolment Of Chi
nese students at the University of
Wisconsin has been materially in
creased by the recent arrival Of ten
students direct from the orient There
are now come thirty men from that
country over sea who are pursuing
courses in the Badger institution.
many of them being in the engineer
ing college.
The newcomers, including some Of
the most intelligent young men in
China, come to America as the result
of the boxer i~demnity. and have as
their mission the requirement of mod
ern methods for introduction into the
progress of their own country.
The recent arrivals are members of
q group of 400 students who are edu-
Gated by the United States every year
The fund from which the expenses of
the young men are paid is the indem-
nifty due the United States as a result
of the boxer rebellion. The govern
ment at Washington set aside the in.
demnity fund for the education of Chi
nese students in American universe
ties.
Every year competitive tests, sim
liar to the Rhodes Oxford examina-
tons. are held, and thousands of
young men compete. The tests are so
severe that only a very capable stu
dent ever reaches the United States.
The students come from all ranks the
majority from the middle classes and
the lesser nobility, although some of
the representatives of the lower class
es are able to get in by enduring
privations which would battle any ex-
cept the most ambitious.
In the American universities the
young Chinese take all sorts of
courses. Perhaps the majority take
the engineering work, but an almost
equal number are entered in the
schools of economics and the social
sciences.
Those students who have been at
Wisconsin during the last few years
are very keen over the progress which
is reported from their fatherland
They 1 that great and significant
change are taking place Most of all,
perhaps, is the way the national spirit
of China is growing-China for the
Chinese China as a strong nation is
the new hope and effort of the young
men, although only the higher elias SEES
so far have awakened to this spirit.
LII unnffon MorL ~ l,iN ~
Alleged violation of the state law
which prohibits workmen employed in
he construction of any public building
from working more than eight hours &
day caused the issuance of a tenn
porary injunction against the continu
ance Of the work upon the addition tC
the engineering building at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin. The order is made
by Court Commissioner Rufus b
Smith, and the defendants are ordered
to appear next Monday before Circuit
Judge E. Ray Stevens and show cause
why the injunction should not be
made permanent.
Tho litigation was started by f. s
Waldschaky. president of the Madison
Federated Trades council, and is the
result of an alleged discovery that T
c. Mccarthy, the contractor for the
addition, is working some of his mel
ten hours a day. The defendants IN
the action are the board of regents Of
the university, w. d. Hoard. as presi
dent of ire board; Secretary of State
James A. Frear, State Treasurer A. II
Dahl and Contractor T. c. Mccarthy
The temporary injunctional order moi
only orders that construction work be
stopped, but President Hoard and Sec
Rotary Frear are restrained from
auditing, and State Treasurer Dab
from paying anything TO Mccarthy OF
his contract.