For years, the citizens of Hunan have hoped. for a university of of a piece tence on political The educational com-who resigned in the 1924, Mr. Li Kien-nung, had been picked by the Governor the ablest person to carry the re: ponsibility of setting up and set-Xing in motion the plans for a university centre. Ground was to be Fought across the river, adjoining the Yo Lu Shan school, and here there were to be taken the college of law and the college of commerce from within the city. This would have formed the nucleus of 1 university movement. But funds planned for educational uses were diverted into military activity unt Mr. Li refused to have any ce region with the plan.
'The past fortnight has seen the announcement of the Ch'en Kwang College and Attached Middle School, fostered by a group of well-Knows' Hunan gentry, men of eulture as well as property. It announced in the prospectus that the College Department will, at present, lay stress on but one depart-ely, school of Chinese and Literature, where teachers ready: for class-room work in Middle Schools may be trained. The Middle School Department is to lay stress, similarly, on but one [branch for the present, namely, that of training men for rural agricalture, in theory and practice, 'A most significant gathering of educators will be held in Changsha on October 10 next. The National Federation of Provincial Educations Associations holds its annual meeting in a different. capital teach year, and this year Changgha hae been fixed as the gathering place. It will be recalled that the 1924 meeting, held la Kaifeng. rather violent anti solutions were passed, donot the cultural invasion of Christian educational institutions and calling for a strict limitation of their sphere of activities. The meeting this Autumn will be awaited with much interest in View of the disturbed period that has ensued since May 30.
Railway Plans rho have followed the Changsha-Wuchang division of the Canton-Hankow Railway, since passenger trains began running in the Autumn of 1919, will recall that the running time' between the we capitals, at first 14 hours for 227 miles, was gradually slowed down as the engineers in charge found themselves unwilling to see the lives of passengers endangered by the rottenness of the roadway, till it hus been 25 hours for the past year or more. It is now announced that repairs will be made promptly and the running time reduced to 18 hours.
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