The part played in the recent demonstrations by the private and Christian schools and colleges caused a good deal of comment in Peking. Yenching University is particularly concerned. This inestitution is supported by many Christian sects in America and Great Britain, and affords excellent tuition at a small expense to the pupils, Tt is one of several col-Teges here that owe their existence to foreign money, which, judging from extensions and building operations now in progress in Peking, available in plenty for the advancement of Chinese education. To the person of a comparative turn of twind, it seems peculiar that while foreign-established colleges Peking are engaged in extending their sphere of usefulness among the Chinese, an educational shift aystem has to be employed in New York to accommodate New York school children. It seems peculiar also that—higher educational facilities in England remain 30 far removed from the working classes.
The only reward apparently for this diversion of education from the children of New Yorkers and Britons to the Chinese is a periodical access sion to the volume of sound that ordinarily aflicts the ears of Peking residents, and the development of a most un-Chinesy desire to "down" all and sundry who do not act in accordance with the mature judg-tment of fourteen-year-old young aiers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.