Plea to Foreign Powers from Educational Bodies for Grant-of Boxer Indemnity Money and Customs Surplus We have received the following copy of a letter which the Provincial Educational Association of Kuangtiong have recently sent to the fore, consuls and fo ent Powers as well as to prominent men We feel sure, the writer says, that we your support en our endeavour to estab for higher learning and culture, and we shall be most obliged if you will, through your valuable paper, give this letter due publicity 20 as to atmosphere favourable to its reception in Burope and America.
Canton, May 5, 1924.
Sit,—We, people in the South, have tong felt the need of sity for those who wish to go for higher learning and culture. Our' cherished hope seems now fulfilled by the appearance of the National Kuangtung University. This new] which is only three! months old, is founded through the jon of three old colleges the Higher Normal Col lege, the Law College, and the Agriculture College. 'These Colleges. have, during the last two decades, mn' the seats of higher and professional education for young men and women of Kuangtung and, me deed, of all South-western provinces: of China and have produced many prominent men in Letters, Law, Sclence and Education, 'The new. University, in addition' to the old departments of study—the Depart. ments of Lay, Econos
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