As for the students, whereas their original enthusiasm can be, and {s willingly' excused on the grounds of patriotism, their continued requests for exemption from examinations and "make-up" classes ure also negative rather than constructive measures, With public meetings banned, however, & loud-mouthed amarity of radical leaders easily was able to take control of student activities and professed to express the opinion of the majority, With both Government and faculty offering them choice examples of intolerance, these radicals evinced a complete disregard for the rights of the majority (which they chose to call a minority', by such acts fg the burning of the belongings of those students who attended the Nanking conference, and by forcing them, in some instances, to leave college, One rather amusing example of their ignorance even of democratic terms was shown in the announcement the Peiping Student Union to the effect that their decision not to send Jdelegates to Nanking was "the unanimous opinion of the majority."
'Their incompetence to organize and carty out @ programme was shown by the return of many discouraged students, after their vain attempts to Impress' upon the rural population, the seriousness of the national crisis The primary caution of separating men from women students was not taken. Thus, when approached _by bands of mixed students, the conservative farmers became distrustful immediately, Any student organization might be} well informed that if it could show that It was able to control students, say, by calling off a strike as well as declaring one, it would command much more respect from the Government and stand more chance of making itself heard fairly, The prerequisite to such control is actual representation in the union, which hag not been characteristic of any} student union in China that I have yet seen oF heard of.
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