Bulletin briedy records the discus~ ions which took place in the summer" at Oxford. and was attended timing British, American and' Chinese educationalists interested in the Un Yersity" problem here. University College, with Sir Michael Sadier host, provided the setting for the three-daya proceedings, Over thirty missionary Teaders. participated. The subjects taken under review included the financial needs of the China universities, the ce-ordination of higher educational institutions, and. the Sconominal treatment of programmes and" curricula with the view of voiding overlapping. 'Special attention was paid to. the affairs of the Cheeloo University. 'The Conference was relieved to find that: the prospec tive Toss entalled bythe. withdrawal next year" of the annual grant from the Rockefelter' Foundation to. the medical school was to some extent counteracted by' the provision funds from America for a new pital, Ata public meeting at Rhodes House the delegates attended gen eral debate on China's University de-Yelopment. Profesior W. G. S. Adams presided and, recalling' his visit this country in 1092, paid a warm tribute to the magnificent: work be-ug' done here by' "universities and Ccolleages and. other institutions, above all by, the Christian Universities of China. "Dr. Adams added teaching the Christian" doctrine Bul "The _univertites are not sim
Iimparting a. wonderful way The meeting also had the private of hearing Dr. Endicott "who. spoke from an experience dating back over 40 years He gave a vivid picture from the past {n illustration of the reverence paid to learning in. this country. Incidentally. it showed the regress made in these days by the Comparisons which It evoked:
None of us thought of university when I fest "went out, 'One morning before daylight t had been encouraged to be prewnt outside the oid Imperial Palace' (comparable to King. Arthur Castle) tied for the examination hale That day none that was not a graduate Arts was. allowed to ait forthe examination. "All who. came" were hoping to" win a master's degree. 18000 were locked into little stalls for three days and three nights. They had their food in there: there was no provision for sleeping~only pens and Daper.. I will never forget the ime session made on'me when great guns Went off and these people came out They "were. of varying ates, from twenty "to seventy years of age. Ol4 men bent double. No one could hold on toa unless ha were ever degree tingly teylog to get another. Many
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