Sir John Newell Jordan, presiding at the opening of the winter sessions of King's College London, remarked that long ago to be said as London did not offer as: grat facili forthe study of Oriental ages as did some of the other tale of Europe. The estab li-ment of the department at King's College had wiped away the reproach so for as) Chinese at lest was concerned. It w: often remarked that a knowledge o! Chinese was not so necessary now as in former days, because the Chinese themselves were acquiring English. He did not share that view, They were, he_ thought, bound to keep pace with the Chinese and to reciprocate, The more they knew of each other's Isnguages the better the anderstandiog was likely to be. Nowa: was quite common for citizens, the interior of Chine, to be supplying themselves with waterworks and other modern conveniences, and to put it at the very lowest a knowledge of Chinese waa becoming marketable commodity in China. The contracts would go to the nations that were best fitted to undertake them, and part of the necessary equipment would undoubtedly bea knowledge Chinese,
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