The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-10
EDUCATIONAL
ARMY ON WAY
Chinese Graduates OF Eastern
Colleges Will Teach in
Picking School.

Probably the great educational move.
ment of modern times, with reference
TO the awakening of China, will be the
arrival there in few weeks of twenty
or twenty-five educators from the
United States, who will pass through
Honolulu on the Tenyo Maru on Janu-
airy "a.
These educators are en- route to
Picking, where they will take charge
of a modern school, modelled after the
best higher grade schools in the United
States, and conducted under imperial
patronage, or rather conducted directly
by the imperial government.
The educators are among the most
advanced, classes who have graduated
from Colum bia, Sn It'll ard many other
eastern colleges, and who are believed
to be eminently qualified to take up
duties as pedagogues in China to edu-
cate Chinese youth for entrance to the
eastern colleges and universities of the
United States.
Visitor to Join Party.
Among the number to go to China is
Miss Starr, now in Honolulu, the guest
of Miss Meyer, who will rejoin the
party when the Tepyo Maru arrives
from San Francisco. Miss STAR is to
assume charge of the art department.
Miss Starr STATS that this is one of
the greatest movements toward aiding
in the awakening of China that has
been planned by the imperial govern
ment. The teachers are men and women
of the highest qualifications. They are
not missionary teachers, but instl act
ors pure and simple, whose work will
compare with that of the large univer-
stiles.
The new school is established through
a portion of the boxer indemnity fund
which the United States government
turned back to China, diplomatic serv-
ice which has no comparison in history.
All the teachers are Americans, and all
the students who leave Picking win at
tend American colleges and at them
selves to return to China in the role
of educators.
First to Scale Wall.
The romantic feature of this move
ment lies in one incident When the
United States troops, with the allies,
stormed the wall surrounding the city
of l eking, yourg man of the Ninth
Infantry was the first of all the troops
to scale the wall For this he was hon
ored by the American gov eminent and
given the opportunity to become a cadet
at West Point, from which he gfadu.
ated, and is now a lieutenant in the
regular army.
This is Lieut.. Calvin Titus. Lieuten'
ant Titus has recently desired to leaye
the army service to take Up religious
work, and also wished to become an
army chaplain, believing that he was
better fitted for that work than in.
structing men to become soldiers.
In the party of educators is one
young man who is to be the military
Instructor at the school, and it is re-
ported that Lieut.. Calvin Titus is the
one. 1t is rather strange thing II al
the young man who scaled the wall first
and was followed by the flag of the
nation which has turned back the great
indemnity fund, should again be per
mitted to pass into the city of Picking
| to instruct the Chinese students in the
art of war.
While the party is in Honolulu they
will be guests at a luncheon to be
spread at Mills Institute, Manoa Val
ley. Frank Damon, head of this insti
tuition, yesterday mailed to San Fran
cisco invitations to the party to become
the guests of the institute while here
The letters will be delivered aboard the
vessel on which they are to sail.