The Archive · 1920

With the exception of Dr

Frow THE YounGER GENERATION

Lien-teh, the other five. above~ mentioned belong to the older generation and Sir Chih-chen Lo Feng-luh, for example, died some years ago. Among those of the younger generation we may mention the followin (7) Dr. Wang Ch'ung-hui, formerly Minister of Justice in the first Republican Cabinet. A Doctor of Civil Law of Yale University, he is now the Chairman of the Law Codification Commission which recently completed the revised draft of China's New Criminal Code. i (8) Dr. C. ©. Wu, the distinguished son of Dr. Wu T'ing-fang. The proud winner of the Inns of Court Barristers Examinations' First Prize of. Three Hundred Guineas, he is assisting his father in Canton and was one of China's. delegates at the Paris Peace Conference last year.

(9) Dr. Philip K. ©. Tyau, Acting Councillor of the Peking Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Acknowledged as the most popular member of the Waichiaopu among the Foreign Legations in the Capital. he is the tennis champion of all North China, having played as one of the tennis team of Cambridge University.

(10) Dr. 8. P. Ch'en, Medica Director of the Peking Central Hospital and Isolation Hospital. He distinguished himself especially the recent Shansi plague epidemic.

Men or Many Ants.

Before the War there were over 350 Chinese students in British institutions: since then, of course, the total has fallen to about 200. At the end of 1916 ther were 292 students hailing from 15 provinces. in China Of these 78 were supported by the Government and 214 were private students. These were scattered in 16 different centres: London, of course, claimed vho most, namely 116; Edinburgh came next with 37; then Glasgow with 25; then Cambridge and Birmingham, each with 18; then Newcastle with 15 and Aberdeen. with 12, ete. tte. And as showing the kind of studies Chinese students are taking: up, the above 292 may be classified as follows:—

Agriculture Architecture Arts Chemistry Commerce Motallurgy Military Science Mining Natural Science Naval Architecture Nursing Preparatery Wireless Telegraphy Total

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