In the face. of Japanese control, the only answer either for Governmental private institutions in order to preserve their educational Integrity, evacuation. If funds are lacking for establishment in other distress, they will have. no choice but to close. Marshal Chang Hsueh-lisng's North-Eastern University already has been Pushed from Mukden to Petping: and the "Young Marshal is again trying, against student opposition, to retreat stil further to Sian, In Shensi where, no doubt, the name will be changed to "North-Western." or later, even to "Central" University.
That college officials are taking. seriously the problem of moving Is proved by the steady stream of visitors to prospective sites. Dr. Chang Poclin, president of Nan Kol in Tientsi last summer visited Szechuch, as did Dr. Lucius Porter of Yenching. Least secretive of all northern colleges Its talk of moving has been Tsinghua, whose president, Dr.
ast-month spent almost weeks in Changsha, "Hunan, going thence to Nanking. Before his visit, Ku, Dean of Teinghua's of Engineering, was also, been attempting negotiations leading towards the put chase of some suitable site for Tyin hua in Hunan, Well may Tsinghus with its permanent fund from. the Boxer Indemnity, offer itself as a most desirable prize to. provincial. govern-monte, which would not welcome £0 warmly a Government "university whose support from Nanking might be cereused in wartime, thus increasing the provinelat burden of expense, vival. through centuries of apparent. seclusion an the shores of: the suen Missionary Schools' Position Atlantic, Sir John Simon, whose oratory and forensic skill must be ascribed partly to his Welsh an-cesters on one side of his family. has emphasized the fact that the Welsh are "an emotional people and a deeply religious people." strength firmly resisted the moral apathy of the eighteenth century, the Welsh tongue to-day living tongue. The Welsh child spence his native language without affectation." Welsh newspapers Te-cord news and express views In Welsh, as in duty bound to reach the masses of a highly literate people, No other country can point {o-a similar cultivation of national institutions. Elsewhere revivals, sometimes vehement,—sometimes merely artifelal are attempted. But, just as Mr. Lloyd George himself, turning from the humdrum task of tearing English Conservatives to Hibbons with his mastery of the English tongue, finds relief in allow Ing his feeney in the beauties his native language to express his nobler thoughts, so the Welsh doctor, captain, judge or—seeing that the chief of the British com= munity In China isan Ambassador diplomat, can retire into the secret avesses of Welsh literature end there, by drinking deep of rich national traditions, find renewed vingpiration for facing the grim prob ems of the world outside. On this day of St, David the thought, with all its memories of Welsh song, dory and speech, fs fitly put down for all case apart. Their comparative lack of dependency upon Nanking is both a blessing and @ disadvantage." Tt will enable them to maintain their present. Positions longer than subsidized Schools; and yet, if funds are lacking they usually are, the expensive proposition of moving could not be considered. "Yenching, 60 ils Board of Truslees has just voted In the pres cence of its president, Dr, Stuart, will remain on its present site irrespective of political changes. With perhaps the most beautiful and most expensive [campus in China, and with a large initial defier despite its $2,000,000 et dowment, such action seems. Inevitable 'Should an autonomous or a Mar choukuo flag wave over Peiping, or should all "customs and tariffs' be diverted from Nanking, Tsinghua, Palta (National Universty' of Peking), Pingta National Univerity of Peiping), the National Normal University, 10 mention the best-known of the Pele ping Government schools, could not Jexpeet Nanking to support them in an area from which it derived no rev-On the other hand, these same /schools could reasonably ask for and expect ancial help from Nanking, and even ce-operation from other Governmental universities in other Parts of the country, in the event of moving.
Revealing is the fact that Peiping, {in about thirty schools of professional or college rank, has about 14,000 students, about one third of all those fu Ching; and also 11,000 students of /milddie school standing. The presence of these students has'been estimated fo mean an annual income of $30,000,- 000 to Peiping, a fact that Japanese have probably not overlooked in their plane. The removal of the sources of
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