'A_ Special Correspondent has recently visited North China and has ha exceptional opportunities for examining the educational. position there, "At a Terult of he enqulties this article has been compiled. It is hoped that make recommendations for tts treatment. bie to discuss the recent Student Slovement and Education In North China is facing double-edged crisis: Japanese influence externally and student pressure from within. The former has to the present shown its hand only indirectly through such facts as, firstly, the closing of milliary camps for col: lege and middle school students efter two weeks of operation last summer, and the consequent elimination of military training from Hopel; secondly, the contemplated revision of all text: books in the Peiping-Tientsin area and the order issued by Yin Ju-keng that Tungchow students should not Purchase any textbooks until the opening of schools last month and lastly, by the ousting from Hospel both of the New Life Movement and the Kuomintang. The significance of And down the rough cascade white dashing fall, (Or gleam in lengthened vista through the trees, You silent steal; or sit beneath the shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the welling mounts Thrown graceful round by nature's careless hand, And. pensive listen to the various voice Of rural peace: the herds, the flocks, the birds, The hollow.whispering breeze, the plaint of rills, That, purling down amid the twisted There is no doubt of the sincerity of that tribute to the glamour of Wales.
It Is not surprising therefore that when Welsh foregather, they-ift up their voices in song and do it with a complete lack of self-consciousness to which other races cannot attain, The late King, who like his father before him and his son after him, was Prince of Wales, hailed the birth of the National University at Swansea in 1920, as the symbol of vision, reinforced by inspiration and persistence. His Majesty recalled the old saying that "where there Is no vision the people perish" and added Without vision the people of Wales would never have had n university: without vision they cannot hope to build up a worthy and en: during structure upon the found: tons now to be. we trust, well and truly ald. "I have been glad. to earn that in Swansea you have seen less clearly than your country. men In other parts of Wales, and that your college Is @rmly rooted in the people's desire for education of the highest type.
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