Education for Chinese New horizons are opening for Young China with the building of the Lester School and Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education, for which a double foundation stone will be laid on February 17 by representatives of the East and the West.
The institution will be erected on a, spacious site at East Seward and Yuen Fong Roads, in Hongkew, und is to be completed in time for the beginning of. the first term of instruction in the autumn. A. staff of technical experts from England, augmented by Chinese assistants, will teach the important trade, mechanical, and cultural subjects expected student body of 150. Eventually' itis hoped to accommodate @ total of 600 scholars. Foreigners as well as Chinese will be admitted, but the school caters principally to Chinese.
The establishment of the technical institute realises the last major purpose of the Will of the late Mr. Henry Lester, millionaire—landowner and philanthropist whose ig_Intimately associated with ly Shanghat histers. Mr. Leater, She died in May, 1920, lo the bulk his fortune for the re-establish nent of the Cathedral School, for The eve ation of the Lester Chinese
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