Mert light is shed on the position of education in Shansi by the recent memorial of the Governor Ts'én Chuin-bstian, to which he appends the new agreement which he has drawn up asa final settlement of vexed questions regarding the new College. the answer of the Throne was Granted that the College be managed as requested. The Governor entitles his memorial as "intended to make the Protestant Indemnity College one with the Government Provincial College, but with a lower name, viz* Western Education Department, in order to preserve Chinese control and farther the interests of learning," The preamble shows how the Chinese view foreign movements which aim at securing control of their institutions. They look upon all such enterprises with a jealous eye, and however desirable foreign control may be {from the standpoint of China's best
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