the English Baptist Mission, was chosen as principal, and a staff of highly qualified foreign "professors iwas selected for the great new venture. Amongst these was a Swede, named Eric Tostig Nystrom, a gra-}duate of Upsala University, who had just arrived in China in search of adventure: and it is the fact that Professor Nystrom is now on visit to Shanghai that inspires the present article.
The founding of the Shansi University was one of the greatest events in the history of the province and the University exists to-day as an outstanding vindication of those whose efforts have been directed towards the Chinese] along It is impossible here to trace the whole growth of the University and development of the province, but it is interesting to note that the latter owes its reputation as the Model] Province of this strife-ridden country mainly to the influences set in motion by the opening of the University. To quote from Professor Nystrom, who has remained niore or less intimately connected with the Shansi University from its _inception, the men who now occupy the ling official positions in Shansi, the men that Governor Yen Hsi-shan
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