the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cuixa Dany News! number of following note:— there is the Dr. Edward Hume's vesignal from the post of President of Yale in China, Changsha, was announced on March 18, the reason given being that he believed the executive control of the scrool should be Chinese Dr. Hume atated that other heads of Christian colleges.in China have Gecided to act. similarly. Yale, in China is supported by the Yale Foreign Missionary Society Incu Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut."
As a foreign medical man who has for many years taken an inter fest and a practical part in. medical education in China may I be allowed to emphatically protest against such wrong views. Shades of Hangchow and Tsinan medical colleges! What next!
Tt seems a great pity that after all the generous help given by the students of Yale University the man fon Whom they have relied to manage the Changsha College and thus me troduce the benefits of Western medicine to that part of China, should have beat a retreat in. such ignominious fashion. Dr. Hume must know very well that the Chie nese are wholly unable, especially in these troublous times, to assume any executive control of a technical school. The appointment of a Chinese Principal means. that he is forced to find posts for friends and relatives of political agitators, such proteges being almost invariably me competent. Students would refuse to be "ploughed" at examinations: if he were to attempt to do so the Principal would be attacked. Dise cipline would disappear, so, also, would the funds. The standard of education would fall and the school would soon become a hotbed of political intrigue which no Chinese executive could or would" control Look at Taiyuanfu University. When Dr. Hume returns to Yale it is most probably he will have wu maueaia quart dheure in explaining how foolishly he has terminated his stewardship.
Tam, ete,
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