The largest college centres: of India are Calcutta with over 15,000 arts and professional students, Madras with over 6,000, and Bombay with about 5,000. Poona, Lucknow, Lahore, Allahabad, and Jafina'in Ceylon, are lesser but important student centres. "It is difficult to believe that the rejuvenated civilisation of India has already made such advances in higher and professional education, Most. of the colleges are affiliated with the five State Universities of Intin. The Christian College of Madras and the Duff College of Calcutta have exercised a marked influence on their time.
In Japan the State colleges and, Univer ies have a student attendance of 57,000. These institutions dre a great surprise to Any one investigating the subject, in extent of the equipment, breadth of the course of study, and earnestness of the students. Lhe Imperial University of Tokio is a grent seat of learning, with 2,239 students, and gra duating each year nearly four hundred men. The severe curriculum, the long terms of study for advanced degrees, the thirty buildings, the library of 250,000 volumes would scarcely remind one that less than fifty years ago Japan opened her mind to Western ideas, STUDENTS IN CHINA, The growth 6f modern learning in China is one of the most impressive things I have met with in the East, Tt has by no means ched such a stave of development as in Japan, but we must take into cousideration the circumstances. Japan profiting by the example and advice of lending mi sionaries, adopted the western education bodily as a government policy. Under the rule of Britannia, India launched out into a western educational scheme of incalculable advantage to her people, In both countries the college became the avenue to civil preferment, as well as recognised scholarship. fa China, until the young Emperor stamped his foot and caused scores of colleges to start from the shades of heathen temples, the Government ad been quite unwilling to turn aside from the hoary examination essay. And yet, in spite of continual opposition from various quarters, the Tangwén_college, the Tientsin University, the Nanyang College, had been established by the Government' or with its consent. And even since the demise of the Emperor's scheme, the Peking University has opened its courses with 300 students or more. I have visited also the other Government or semi-Government colleges in Wuchang, Tientsin, Nanking, and other points.
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