The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-03-02
STUDENTS ATTEND LECTURES
ALL THROUGH THE DAY TO
INJURY OF HEALTH AND
COMFORT
NOT FOR PLEASURE
imperial University in Low Ram
bling Buildings of Yellow
Tile-Forbidden the
City.

Closely hugging the gray. walls Of
! geilow-tiled Forbidden City lies the
low, rambling buI.dinss OF the I'M
gerlal university oil te.nn.
Like Chinese houses these build
ings are usually or one s.ory, sell
dom more tnan two, butt about
small square courts which open upon
each other through bread 2a.eways.
Within these gley brick walls, says
! + writer in tie independent, are loGnd
simple rooms Tor the giving and hear
ING OF lectures, provided Win desks.
and benches, and also rooms nt,ed up
as eieinen.ary labor azores OF science
MusUdns, too, OF A. simple chaI acteI
ale Lere established and library nil
| sd up largeiy with. the soft, thin,
uIaEy ieaNeu volumes OF the Chinese
class cs.. These buildings, like the old
\ er buildings OF so many German uni
\ Verslties- were not maze for I4liyersi-
( ~ purposes but were built as palaces
t simple and transformations.
| The Cllnese student physically is
not robust lie has the scholars stoop
and ne scholars paleness OF complex
on. Go hlin, as to his nation, tuber-
cGlosis- is a grave peril, tuberculosis
affecting oIEer organs as well as the
lungs tbs lie is not wholesome, He
sleeps III a small. room, unyentilated
and probably with two or. three
chums.
He exercises little His food is not
of mat nutritious type which most
American students eat. Athletic sports
he INDUCES IA. but not largely. Asso-
clatlon IooLball. he pays aud fairly
well A TYPICAL. program of inter-
coheSiale sports includes a one-hun-
dred-yard DASH. the high Jump, the !.
pale vault, 220-xard run and the /.
broad jump, as well as a. football
game.
The mind of the student is. by ma
Mre, better. than his body. The Chin
csc mind is. in its original constitu--
uon, one Of fairly good strength and
II fiber. but its original forces have
been impaired by centuries of unreal
/ soning education and of enslaving
customs. L. is mind giyen to forms,
STEPPED in Journalism, subjected to
! precedents,, devoid of originality as
the will. is of initiative, absorbing
fact and fable and fancy as well as
truth through vast, energy and raten-
tive, memory.
1t is a mind literary, not scientific
For. 1000 years the Chinese have not
studied science, The student has
small liking for. mathematics; he pre-.
fers, chemistry. to physics, and his lik-.
ing Tor physics is measured by the
small amount of mathematics includ-
ed. a condition., perhaps, which is,
CHARACTERISTIC of other minds than the
Chinese. This mind is not. moreover.
an accurate mind 1t is like the Chin
csc mechanic, content with being and
With doing. things about right
/ 1t is, be 1t said, a la5orious mind.
Thirty or more lectures week the
student attends and takes notes of
The six days of each week. without
any Saturday whole or half holiday,
are ftled with lectures, and the even
lngs and Sunday are the only time
left for reading, studying notes or re-
Election.
The learning and the understanding
and the physical writing of his dread
ful language is. . form of his educa,
ton 10 which he must give much
time and heedfulness. A bottomless
i pit is this language. for. its charac-
tiers seem endless. If a Romanized
mandarin script could be adopted
Chinese education would go forward
far less lowly.
The teachers are gathered from al,
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 Chinese
mind. The Chinese have a belief that
topics foreign to them can best be
taught by foreign teachers, as they
similarly believe that their Official for
eign Office should be built in foreign
style of architecture.
i English is, therefore, taught b,
those who speak English, German by
those who speak German, and the sci.
enced and medieval history, also
foreign, by foreigners. Be it said that
the Chinese teachers are held in high
er honor than the foreign though the
salary OF the native is only one-s1xth
as great. The number of foreign
teachers is today smaller than a dec
ade ago, when the great Martin had
: gathered about him noble faculty.
} Perhaps the least worthy instruc-
ton given In the higher education in
China is found in medicine. The me-
diaevalism of China receives its most
impressive illustration in the charac-
ter of this teaching. A single fact ie
profoundly and harrowingly signilc-
ant. It Is the fact that never in this
vast and ancient empire has the hu-
man body been dissected for scientific
purposes. The reason Il manifold.
But one cause lies IN the superstition
that to those who dissect q human
body the disembodied spirit might ~
] turn "a afllfcf AMI fo forkuro