It may be readily granted that you will always find a large number of any class of Chinese, students included, who will be quite willing to go to the ends of the earth if their expenses are paid. Enlistment for the Chinese Labour Corps, both of coolies and of interpreters, had to be limited both in time and in area because of the embarrassments of numbers. The recent emigration of students 1.0 France under a miserably crude scheme (the promoters of which were Chinese in France) was only a fraction of the applicants for emigration. In the mere matter of geographical distance, therefore, there is no cause of hi: ce. But geographical distance does make immense differences in cost of transit. It would surprise some to work out the difference between the number of students that you could send for, say $10,000 respcectively from Shanghai to Tokio, to San Francisco and to London. Then when the comparative cost of living in Britain is compared with the cost in China, a further money difficulty appears. If a Chinese student were to go just now 10 England without an assured income of $2,000 a year, he would he likely to be too worried over what he should eat, what he should drink and the wherewithal he should be clothed to do well at his studies. That means that a hundred students a year for a five year course would take an annual endowment of a million dollars.
A difference between America and England must be noted here. It is a comparatively easy and a quite common thing for a student in America to earn quite a considerable portion of his total expenses by undertaking all sorts of jobs both in term times and in the vacations. Such a thing is very unusual and very difficult to arrange in the British Isles. Any man having an assured income of $1,000 a year only would be better advised to go to America than to England.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.