The students now in America feel keenly the cloud that hangs over the name of "returned student" and especially the American returned student, in some quarters in China, and have set their teeth to. wi out the disgrace of being considered unable "to deliver the goods."
for thig reason that I have had joys comet me actually weeping because I had no opening of the sort that would furnish them with workmen's jobs in the sphere in which they had taken their degrees. The time has wholly passed, when the funny stories told of Chinese students going-in long robes to factories and, with their hands up their sleeves, going about the plant making themselves a nuisance and 4 Taughing-stock to both management and men were true, 'These Chinese are thoroughly in earnest, and all they want is the opportunity to prove that they both can and will "deliver the zeeds." Heretofore the boys have not had the proper training, but now that they are doting the' practical work with the theoretic, I am sure the Chinese student will prove himself as efficient as the student from any other nation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.