'The returned students of 25 years ago, many of them now professors at the' university, gave a tea reception and showed us over the university, fand next day a dinner party also, with those who were in government service. One of them spoke the best English T ever heard on foreign lips, and all of them had kept only happy memories of England. Specially they remembered a dinner my father gave them at the Hotel Cell" when on furlough, students as they were: then, The Chinese Minister then in London had thought the Shansi students uncouth in those early days and thir English poor and had even suggested they all be shipped back home; but my father had intervened successfully, and also given this piece of hospitality, which they never forgot. When one considers how they' had come from that high aloof fableland and been plunged into London and Sheffeld, Cardiff and Glasgow, one marvels at the success they maida of such a drastic venture: and they took taels degrees into bargain, even with honours.
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