THROUGH all the political and social turmoil which has existed in China since the overthrow of the Manchu or Ch'ing dynasty, perhaps no class of Chinese has been so profoundly disappointing as the students sent abroad to acquire a foreign education with the reasonable expectation that on_their return they would eventually take a leading part in guiding their people into the paths of peace, prosperity and steady progress. A large proportion of them were aided financially from foreign funds, and were treated with the greatest' kindness and consideration in the countries to which.they went. Yet they do not seem to have undergone any remarkable change or development as the result of their Western learning. They have shown, og yet, ay
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