The mail has just brought the North-China Daily News" to the colony of Hongkong. The issue of January 20 is of great interest to "those who believe in the advantages of higher education for Chinese students, The most pleasing pararaph, which was quickly marked in the copy in the Students' Union Common- Room of the Hongkong University, occurs in the annual report, of the work at Medhurst College.. The Rev. E. J. Malpas said:
"They would all rejoice with him on hearing that a scholarship for the University of Hongkong had been presented to the College, of the value of $500 per annum by the great sgeiierosity of Mr. Henry Lester, to be known as the 'Lester Scholarship.'
would be open for competition to the students, - the exact terms being announced later. This was the first scholarship for a British University that they had, and they hoped that it would be the forerunner. of many others.""
-*'The Lester Scholarship is valu-lo, not so much because it provides-8500 a year for an old student of. Medhurst College, important as that is. It is a tangible expression of-the deep interest in University education of far-sighted men in Shanghai. It was fitting, and indeed of good omen, that the public nouncement was made by the Rev. E. J. Malpas, for there is a firm' impression in the mind of the writer, and some of his colleagues, that the headmaster of Medhurst College means to assist, in every way possible, in the development of University eduction in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.