The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-09
4 CHINESE INnERsIrr.
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DAYS In the Neek
Ciussly huEghk the gray vail. q a.
yellow til-d Forbidden city b. no L,-
rambling buildings 20 the ImgSrld u.
ver-ity ~ Pekin. Lake chime. Ns.,s..
ths--e buildings are Usually of On. -, -g.
-..,lun - more than two. built a.Y.s
small square courts which opsn ugou
each other through broad gateway
Within this. gray brick walls. -av- .
writer ln tho Iads psndsRi arr found s.-.-
ruom- for the giving and h"arrs :
lectures. provided with desks and i."r. .rs.
and also room. fitted up a. elrm.U..-y
Laboratories of sci"noe.
Museums too of a simple char4r-a-
are here established and library 'IIa!
up largely with the soft. thin many
leaVed volumes 81 tee Chinese classic.
These buildings. like the Older hulyugs
OF so many German universities yer-
not made for university purposes ugy
were built as palaces, simple and -u.
oct entatiO;.S.
The Chinese student physically b. No.,
robust lie has the scholars Stoop and
the scholars palene~s OF cOmplaNon
To him. az to his nation. tuherculo@s q
a grave peril. tuberculosis Affecting other
organs as well a. the lungs. His he IS
not wholesome. He sleeps in a small
room. unventilated. and probably With
two or three Chums.
He exercises little. His food Is not ~
that nutritious type which most Amen
can students eat Athletic sports he IN.
dulg,Ss in. but not largely Association
football he plays and fairly well. 4 iyplral
a.
cl,Ide- a IOo yard dash. the high jump.
the pole vault, 22O yard run and the bruad
Jump. a. well as a foot ball game.
The mint OF the student - by nature
better than his kody The chinese mind
IL IN its original constitution one u
fairly good strength and fibre. hut ~
original forces have been impaired nv
Of unreasoning education and
Of enslaving Gust oms II IL a mind gwen
to forms. stepped in Journalism. sIb-
jected TO pretedents. devoid 81 Original.
ity n the will IL Of initiative, absorb
ing fact and fable and fancy a. well a.
truth through vast energy and reteniiVe
memory.
L. Is "a mind literary, not scientific. For
wo thousand years the chinese have not
ii udlsd science. he student has small
liking for mat hematics. he prefers chem,.-
~ - physics, and his liking for physics
~ measured 10y the small amount &
mat hemaiics included a condition. Uer-
haps. which IL characterist 10 of other
minds than the Chinese. This mind Is
not moreover, an accurate mind. II i.
like the chinese mechanic. Conteni with
being and with doing things about
right
IL il. bs It laid. a laborious mind Thirty
or more lect ures week IN" student
A. "A -
days Of each week without any Safuriav
" h NE or half holiday, are filed with lee
lures and the evenings and sunday arr
he only time left Tor reading. studying
notes or reflection.
The. learning and tho undo ret andinc
and the physical writing NJ his dreadiul
language - form OF his education %
" Inch he must give much time and heet-
fulurSS \ bot onlcss pit ~ his lanr1Iag"
for it, characters saen endles- II q
isomani cd Mandarin script could h'
adopted chimes cducai ION would 60 for
want far less slowly.
hs teachers are ga' hered from al
parts 10 the world England. tscrmauy-
JaUan. he United States provide m"
lar geI number of forri gnerS. lhc-e men
are called 80 teach subjects which ara
foreign 30 the Chinese mind. he I'hine-.s
have h"ltet that topics foreign To them
rau l,.a-f h. taught by torei IN teach"r,
A. be-" similarly hslIcye thar their ofhclsl
foreign "ficr should tie bt.lh IN foreign
Il L. at architecture
English is therefore taught by tho
who speak English. German by those VIII
speak German and the sciences ant
MEDIEVAL history, also foreign by forelgr-
~ b. u said that the Chinese teacher
~ held "a higher honor than the t"r"ign.
hough the salary Of the nattv" j. only
me sixth as great The number r
'ur.iRn teachers il to-day smaller than a
trcld" ago. whom the great Martin Ma
ga hered about him a noble faculty
Perhaps the least worthy instruction
gwen IN the higher education IN China o.
ound m medicine. The mediTyallsrn ~
'hina receives It's most impra-sly" illus
rat ion in ~" character ~ this teaching.
single fact - profoundly and harrow
ngly significant. IL u the fact that never
N this vast and ancient empire has N"
human BODY been dis-acted Tor scientific
purposes The reason l. manifold but
ne CstI-s. lip- in the superstition thar -
hos. who di-saCt "A human body tho d..
mbodIed spirit might return Ia afnict
nd To torture
Tho medicine which j. taught - largely
'hine-e medicine. and Chinese mediclr"
y compound of superstitions. II must
~ confessed that the few attemp's made
q teach Western medicine have not been
IA spirit IT scientific or p"r'
pnal honesty. 4 friend Of mine was
lectsi professor in the Imperial TN
ver-ity He was called 10 teach -"
hree subjects 81 English. mathematlc'
nd Western medicine
He was told that while he was engage
n his room IA teaching Western nedicin"
IA the room adjoining a Chinese profess
would be teaching Chinese medicln"
While h" himself was trying 10 t"aCl
physiology the Chinese associate would
~ declaring that man has nine pulses ani
NO hearts. asked my friend. Why
Iid they want YOU to teach Nest"rT
Incidence show was his laC"u.'
nsw-r He declined the chair.
MIIITItNtN tND GIN.