Dr. Anne Fearn, who has gone to the United States to assist in completing a. $2,500,000 endowment fand for the American School Shanghai, is telling America that the school here is one of the only institutions of its kind which is not at least partially subsidized by its own government.
Fearn's lecture series will begin in Oetoter and she intends: to speak in all the large cities along. the Pacific coast and in the Eastern States, In her lectures Dr. Fearn intends to explain that the Ame can School in China is an element ary and high school for the education of American children, founded 18 years ago. by missionaries rented buildings with an enrollment: of 38, In 1917 it moved into the present, buildings and, with a. pre sent enrolment of 650, has outgrown its present quarters since that time.
To date several hundred thousand dollars have been subscribed to the maintenance fund, John D. Rock feller, Jr. having underwritten personally the campaign expenses of some $60,000 gold. Members of the executive contmittee directing the raising of the fund, which amounts to about four million Mexican dollars, include some of the most prominent. business men, and contributors include representatives of [business houses having interests in the Orient, as well as hundreds of private citizens who have realized the situation in which the schod involved.
Unless financial aid for the institution is procured, Dr. Fearn be-Tieves, the school will be demoted to the class B rank, which will. greatly hamper American graduates from centering colleges and universities in the United States without examin tions and other encumbrances. The greatest result of the lack of fands in Shanghai is the underpaid teacher, The fands available for compensation of teachers are so inadenate that each instructor receives about $33 a month, American money. No teacher in America would think of accepting less than G.§100 and most of them receive far more than that.
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