When that portion of the Amer-can indemnity which was to be de-voled to modern education of Chinese students here and abroad was remitted to China, it was released to the Chinese Government and placed by the Government at the disposition of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so that the administration of the school has never been free from domestic polities and so that there has been much "waste," put it midly, in the fiscal admin. istration of the school and in the spending of funds devoted to the support of students in Ameri For years past therefore it has been the ambition of the Chinese alumni who continue to be interested in the college and of the Americans fon the successive boards, to coax some Chinese administration to put. the school on a non-political basis and permit the creation of non-political board of directors who could control faculty appoint rents and Keep some check on the had slowly come to be the conviction also of the majority of the alumni and of most of the foreigners who have watched the careers of foreign-trained students that the support of large bodies of students abroad, sent to Ameri simply by virtue of having received A diploma from Tsinghua, was netting neither China nor America any advantage.and- was pot the best thing for the majority of the: students. These same interested persons also wanted to see radical economies effected so that the endowment fund could be increased and the college made independent of current American indemnity payments which might fail through any of a dozen possible conting-fendes in this era of rot and do-moralization.
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