Dr. Robert McElroy's Correction of Certain Misstatements in the Press In view of the importance of the subject, Professor Robert Mc-Elroy, PH. p., LI. D.,° Managing Director of the China Sodiety vf America, has sent to us for publication the following reply to an editorial in the 'Peking Daily News," entitled "The Challenge to Returned Students'
In reply to an editorial in the "Peking Daily News," entitled "The Challenge to the Returned Students,'' I wish to state as definitely as possible the veal challenge, which was not to the returned student, but to the system of education stamped upon him when he returned.
In_an address which I made at the Forum and Vocal Press on April 17, 1923, I made a plea for the more practical training of Chinese students in America. Certain chance phrases were interpreter: by the New York press as criticism of the students rather than of the system under which they are being educated. The following correction was at once sent to the New York papers:—
THE REAL POINT,
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