To go back to the Japanese studen*, the following paragraph from the Japan Times" will explain how he stands:
"To check the degeneration of character that is going on among the students in the city, Viscount Toric has a scheme for establishing a dormie ry in the com. pound of his residence at Otowa of Koishikawa at a cost of 8,000 yeu. He has obtaine! the support of Privy Councillors and of som dignitaries, and held a conference in this connection at the Privy Council on saturday. His opinion is that the degradation of the students is chiefly due to the untidiness of the rooms in which they live. The remedy is the construction of neat dormitories. Wien these dormitories are built he will admit any students into them provided that those students bring a letter of application for admittance from their parents or brothers."
Viscount Toric is no dreamer or ful list, as may be seen from the fact that inh method of reforming these students he isar one with many foreign missionaries teachers, The shocking immoral cluding unnatural crimes, that results from the license given t+ schoolboys after school hours is well recognised as a great evil to young Japan, and Pare Ferrand, an energetic French missionary, is now touring Europ: and America with the object of counteracting this evil by the est vblishme st of properly supervised be siding-houses for boys with the money which he collects abroad, Other missionaries have seen the same necessity, and are probably taking measures to supply it if they have not already done so. Anyhow I contend that this license and immorality lead to the insubordination I have spoken of, and that the insubordination is rapidly commun-leated to the Chinese students who come over here. You should have seen a mesting these Chinese students held here a few weeks ago to denounce the educational system of their country and the mea who carried it out, and to do so in no measured language. The students who had been longest in the country wore European clothes, had no pigtails, and smoked cigarettes with a blase air. These who had jus: come were four-afuit Chinese, pigtail and all; while a considerable number, while retaining some article of Chinese dress, had_their pigtail carefully folded up out of sight or some other concession made to the spirit of innovation. I have already indicated the kind of language in which they indulged and, as they all spoke Japanese, their tirades found their way at once into the Tokio Press and are probably by' thiy time in Poking. Much as one is inclined to sympathise wi these young enthusiasts, he cannot like gross attacks and especially unnecessarily Fish and reckless onslaughts, These students have all of them spoiled their chances of doing any gool in their own country: it would probably mean death for one of the orators to venture back at the present moment. I am reluctantly obliged to confess, therefore, that in my belief they are only making fools of themselves. The double attack on the Legation was the climax of their folly and may prevent many Chinese students from coming to this country in future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.