in passing judgment upon his fel-By way of Preface, the Chinese low-countrymen who have had foreign schooling usually excepts the Japanese returned student from his generalizations. He will point out that the Japanese returned student is not so full of his own importance when he returns to his motive land, that he has not-so high a conception of his proper place in life, that he does not vaunt his contempt for al! things Chinese and worship alien standards, that he has not forgotten his own native traditions of propriety, that he has an adequate knowledge of the Chinese languag> and literature, that he does not that while still a good Chinese lack initiative and courage, but
from the Chinese point of view, he has not failed to make the best use of whatever facilities were offered him for the acquisition of technical knowledge and is willing to go to work in his own line when he returns.
Upon this phase of the returned student problem foreigners. seldom comment because as a rule they do not have a sufficient acquaint ance with Japanese returned students to comment upon them as a class.. It is a sufficiently common Chinese observation however, ty merit attention. The Chinese explain that the Japamese returned student is a better Chinese be-
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