Chinese Bodies Preventing -Reopening of University An effort is being made by the conemies of St. John's University to prevent its re-opening and, indeed, to persuade the Nationalist University Council to take over its con General Students Union, the Federation of Schools Opposed to the Reopening of St. John's Univer. sity, and the Union of Ex-St. John's Students, in o petition addressed to. the University Council asking it to take control of the institution, say that it is essential that foreigners should he removed from the charge of educational institutions as soon fos possible if the Chinese wish to uphold thely sovereign rights. John's University was opened som 40 years ago and several thousand young Chinese have received their! Uiplomas therefrom, which has resulted in their performing: voluntary work for foreigners. They have been made to take up the Bible and to encourage people to enter the Christian Church, Students have been taught each day to pray and to study the Bible and, being situated as they were, they had to obey these orders of the foreigners.
Religion and education, the writers say, are two entirely different things. The people's education must mot be interfered with by yoligion, nor must the Bible be used to cheat the people. If this is allowed, how, they ask, can the
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