to Students Judge C. S. Lobingier of the United States Court for China on Wednesday delivered an address to 140 Chinese students leaving to enter American Universities. He said in Youth is the time of opportunity, and youth never returns, Within the next few years you will encounter the forces which make or mar careers and to you is given the unique opportunity of education in a foreign land, contact with a different civilization and the benefits of a new and strange environment. Few students from any other lands than the Far East have such oppor. tunities. Most of them are educat ed in their own countries and travel, if it comes at all, is experienced at a later and less impressionable age. With you it will be a part of the educational process and should be utilized to the limit.
Your opportunities are also unusual in the large number of educational institutions from, which you may choose. I wish to draw no in-vidians comparisons... Other countries have older universities than those of America; but few have so many. You will be able to choose from the privately endowed institutions which began in colonial days, like Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, or from those not less richly endowed, though much younger, like the University of Chicago and Leland Stanford. Then you will have a group of smaller institutions like Dartmouth, Bow-doin, Oberlin and Beloit, where some of the best work is done still, though the attendance is not so large: and, as Daniel Webster said of Dartmouth, his own Alma Mater, "Tt is a small college but there are those who love it." Some of you have already chosen from the great group of more than 40 State universities—a group which I mention with especial pride because it includes my own Alma Mater—several of whom have an enrolment of 10,000 each.
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