Mar. 6.
Tur annual speech day of the Public School for Chinese which took place last Friday and was reported in our columns on Saturday provides a convenient opportunity for a short reference to the education of Chinese in the Settlement. The school was founded, as the Headmaster state ed in his report, 18 years ago. The land, at that time not a very expensive property, was given by the Council and the buildings, which are very fine, were erected by funds subscribed by the local Chinese gentry. Other schools in: the Settlement have been brought into being in the same way. There are the Nich Chih-kwei and Ellis Kadoorie public schools which perpetuate the names of their founders and provide an excellent education for many Chinese boys who, but for the generosity and public spirit of those two gentlemen, would have.bean poorly equipped for their life work. Correspondents who write to us discussing the comparative cost of the education of Chinese and foreign children are apt to overlook those large contributions to the expense of Chinese education in Shanghai.
The love of the Chinese for education is one of the most ad-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.