In justice to Dr. Martin and his professors, it should be said that the real ground for failure in producing results has een the intense reaction the Central Government. was the only important thing left from the Emperor's reforms in the summer of 1808 With any other man than Dr. Martin head of the institution, it would have been almost a certainty that the University would have been closed, and some of the Chinese instructors would have been punished. The University, to live at all until the Boxer anarchy, had to live at a "poor dying rate." It seems a clear proof of Chinese unappreciativeness that Dr. Martin should be thus unceremoniously given his walking papers," after residing in China nearly fifty years, after service in the Chinese Government for nearly forty years, after praiseworthy literary achievements, which 1n authority among the educated, after most valuable assistance rendered the Tsungli Y:
adviser and friend, and after his t experiences during the summer of 1900, wher the Legation quarter was being bombarded and he daily took his position as gate-keeper at the British Legation. If this is the end of a career of service in China's behalf for China's good, one may well hesitate to serve such a Government as is found in Pekin facult the University in its trying opening days, is now set adrift, though with good pay, i ames should once One of the earnest instructors, shot. down on the first day of the sie: and his head was hung up for several cast gate of the Imperial cit; ily, through the British Government, is to receive a good and nich-needed compensation, but none the leslie was a martyr to ina's wrath, while in the employ of China. Uni i-hsi was appointed, the University has had two Chancellors. " The first was the Imperial Tutor Sun Chia-nai, and the secon was Hu Ching-cheng, who was beheaded in July of 1909 by or ters of the Throne because he spoke against the war and derided the Boxers.
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