London, Jan. 9.
Rev. W. E. Soothill, Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, in a letter to "The Times," suggests that the best way of dealing with the Boxer Indemnity would be first to devote a sufficient sum an-bually to the development of existing British elementary and middle schools in China as feeders of Universities, and next to support existing Universities there and institutions which could be formed into Universities. The British staff should be strengthened where these institutions are British-American. It would be possible, though the amount which could be allocated would not be large, to do very valuable work at Shanghai, Hankow and Tientsin, and in Shantung, Szechuan and Hongkong. Finally, a limited number of scholarships for study in Britain should be provided.
Professor Soothill says that Chinese students in England -have been on the whole a credit both to China and the Universities bnt it is advisable for students to he thoronmhly educated in China before being sent abroad Professor Soothill declares that some portion of the Indemnity would be well spent. in providing post-graduate scholarships in Brifain for graduates of supported institutions.—Reuter.
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