London, July 19.
Opinion in Great Britain is ruuning rather strongly in favour of remission of part of the Boxer In demnity for the purposes of promoting higher education in China and more expecially an interchange of ideas between China and Great Britain.
'A very interesting precis on the progress of China towards participation in the education of- the Western World has been compiled by Mr. Morse as follows "Yung Wing, a graduate in 1854. of an Auierican university, Yale, was the first to bring this necessity to the notice of the higher authorities; and he found his opportunity in the diplomatic pressure brought to bear on China as the result of. the Tientsin massacres in 1870. Ho obtained the support of Li Hung-chang and Tseng Kuo-fan, who, outside Peking, were the most infidential among the statesmen of China;_and in the year 1872-1875, he, as Director of the Educational Mission, took 120 selected boys to the United States.
These were placed by twos fu American families, and attended the ordinary Municipal schools, passing successively from the Grammar School to the High School; and they were, some them, just ready to enter a university, when in 1880 the whole of them were recalled. The Peking authorities had become alarmed at a suggestion made that they were becoming Americanized, and were losing their character of loyal Chinese subjects.
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