dinner, Mr. Calder Marshall said Addressing the gathering after
that China having entered the race for industrial development must train her young men. It was therefore proposed to found a textile school to provide a thorough training for Chinese students in both theory and practice in all branches of the textile industry so that a body of well-equipped Chinese engineers and mil] managers might be available to direct the future development of the textile industry.
This proposed textile schoo! was now engaging the attention of a committee composed of British: and Chinese interested in the progress. of the industry and who realized the advantages which would accrue to China from technical education.
It was proposed to provide for complete courses for spinning,
printing, so that the student gradu-weaving, bleaching, dyeing and ated from the school would have as thorough a technical training as it_was possible to give.
The foregoing would necessitate the employment of a staff of trained teachers and engineers who were specialists in the branches they would be required to teach; a large amount of machinery and equipment, and a considerable sum of
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