Dr, Szeming Sze writes: 1 have! readin your issue of November 17 with a deep sence of sorrow of the tragic death in California of Professor Joseph Bailey.
Many of your readers will undoubtedly remember Professor Bailey 'a5. missionary and teacher in China, ut few know of his work in Eng-lend to secure for Chinese engineering students suitable practical train~ ing. T would like to place on record the great debt of gratitude of the Chinese student body in Great Britain to the late Professor Bailey for his particular efforts in this direction—efforts which happily now have borne fruitful results, thanks to the preli-minery spadework done by him, Some eight years ago, when I had. the honour of serving as President of the Central Union of Chinese Students in Great Britain, it was my privilege to come in contact with the work which Professor Bailey was Going to help Chinese engineering students to work in British works Sind factories. In those days, it was Gxtemely difteult for a Chinese Sfodent to obtain entrance, these works, owing to te prevailing? Diet trade secrets would. be lest to
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the Studentship Scheme, jointly fostered by the Federation of British Industries, the China Association and the, Universities China Committee (not forgetting the ce-operation of the P. & 0, Steamship Ca. and the Blue Funnel Line), Chinese engineer. Tag' students are' being encouraged ind Welcomed. At the present 10: ent' there are some 20 students Gistributed" among. various - British engineering firms, and. this number "bound to Increase in future years inthe words of the Chairman of he "point Committee Sir George Mecdonogh, the supply of students is Short of the demand, "That the' captains of British dustry have been inthe last. few Sears converted to the view hat the Meining of Chinese students in their Works will bring returns in the form orders, ete is very largely due {o the pioneering work done by the ite Professor alley. There rust SeStew who really knew the tremen-dour amount of time and trouble he Gevoted to. calling on innumerable Company directors and. factory man-Ser throughout Great Britain to Explain his self-appointed mlsslon—Stask. fraught with discouragement with no prospect of success. BY the Chinese. student. body in. Great Britain and by the growing body of British Returned Students. in Chin the Into Professor Bailey will always remembered with gratitude, re-Werence and esteem, He is gone, but hot forgotten.
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