"The reason for the dismissal of Dr. Martin and his faculty seems, on the surface, to be because they insisted that their contracts should be observed, while the new Chancellor did not. care to pay up past salaries, and did not hold himself responsible for what his predecessors had done. According to the contracts, euch professor must on dismissal be given three months' notice, with three months' payment in advance. During all these months the University has had no Chancellor, and no professor has had word of his disin The Chancellor and others, on the other hand, consider it a little hard to pry for services never rendered, at a time that China has been Drought about by her own folly. not be lost sight of that Dr. been here for nearly a year waiting on Prince Ching and the Government to resuscitate the University, and has been busily occupied inimportantiranslation work. Professor Allardyce also for half a year has been hard at work in forming an English department, having over two hundred paid pupils, the school being approved by both rinee Ching and Viceroy Li. 'The French instructor, M. de Gieter, has for the last two months started in' the University buildings a French class. The new Chancellor has furthermore been ready to get rid of the old staff and make a new beginning. He and other Chinese officials have been convinced that the University in the past has been rather a farce and a big expense and can see no good results from the money and labour spent. At the best, the University has been only high school.
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