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THE TIMES,
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1909.
WESTERN TEACHING FOR CHINA.
The China Emergency Appeal Committee are about to make an appeal for assistance in medical training and other educational work in China. The fund for this purpose will be opened at a meeting to be held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p.m., under the presidency of the Lord Mayor. The meeting will be addressed by Sir Robert Hart, the Bishop of London, the
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Representative boards will be established in China in each loceity where they do not already exist to secure the proper administration of d funds devoted to gnion or inter-denominational 10 work. Contributions, if desired, can be speci- i
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Contributions may be sent to the treasurers, in the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, · Mansion House, É.C., or to Mr. Robt. Lathain Barclay, 54, Lombard-street E.C., in addition to the. hankers of the Chine Emergency Appeal Fund,
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Dr Messrs. Barclay and Co., 54. Lombard-street, and the Hong-kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard-street, "E.C.
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เย American Arnbassador, Lord Strathcona, Dr. Gibson, and the President of the Wesleyan Conference.
Sir Robert Hart is the president of the committee, of which the vice-presidents are the
The offices of the China Emergency Committee are at 28, Victoria-street, Westminster, where n all particulars can be had.
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: Bishop of London, the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Universities, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Armitstead, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Reay, and Lord Strathcona.
The change which has taken place in Chine, says the memorial prepared by the committee, has been rapid. The educational system has been transformed, and schools and colleges of various grades have been established. To re- fashion her institutions and educate her children China is seeking help from the West. Happily she knows the West through missions as well as through the opium trade.
Out of the co-operation of some missionary
societies und the earnest interest of others, there has arisen a new enterprise, the scheme of which the committee sete forth.
The first and most urgent need of China. according to the committes, is for medical colleges where natives may be prepared to
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is pro- posed, therefore, to develop a medical college recently established at Peking and to bring up its equipment to the highest modern standard, and to reorganize in the same way! three other institutions in West, Central, and Southern China. In support of this scheme the committee propose to appeal provisionally for £40,000.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-A meeting is announced to be held at the Mansion House on the 16th inst., with a view to providing Western teachers--especially medical teachers--for China.
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It so happens that an earnest effort is being made just now to found a University (at the st portals of China) in the British colony of Hong-p kong, and I venture to suggest that the object in view could not be better furthered than by ar supporting that project. The coincidence of appears, indeed, so opportune that I may per- (I e haps be permitted to outline the position."
An aspiration expressed by the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, in the course of a public |ir Mody, to offer to present the necessary buildings ci address, induced a resident in the colony, Mr. | b
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It is estimated that the buildings will cost! e some $200,000 (say approximately £29,000); the Colonial Government will provide a fitting site: there remains the endowinent, which is į estimated at £110,000. When Mr. Mody's munificent offer reached Sir Frederick Lugard be called a meeting of representative residents to discuss it, and I have before me a mergoran- jer dum in which he states their conclusions and e elaborates his conception of the objects to be* kept in view.
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It was the unanimous opinion of the meeting ti that the two facultios of primary importance
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It is proposed accordingly to amalgamateat and extend the "Hong-kong Medical College," which was founded in 1887 for the education chiefly of Chinese in medicine and surgery, and which has already turned out 36 qualified licentiates, besides 24 who are still undergoing training. The diploma does not at present represent a medical degree, though men possess- ing it have practised in the colony and elsewhere - with excellent results; but powers would be is taken and arrangements made under the new yscheme to institute examinations and confer
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For educational purposes the committee hope that efficient help will be provided by the equipment of a central University. This important object, however, is not included in the present appeal, because a special is those of medicine and applied science (cugi- committee have been formed to deal with it. Primary and secondary schools are, however, now being established in all parts of the Empire, and these need Chinese teachers trained in the new learning. To provide such teachers it is proposed to form normal training colleges at various mission stations. A scheme has also been drafted, and has. received the cordial approval of all English societies represented at the Shanghai Conference, by which missionary societies would be invited to establish theological colleges for pastors by the side of each central training institution for teachers.
The management of the central institutione degrees on students who attain a standard equal
to that required in England. would be vested in the hands of a local board
As regards engineering, there exists also the These d representing the societies concerned. societies would provide the salaries of the staff, nucleus of a faculty in a so-called "Technical the cost of the general upkeep of the colleges e Institute"--which combines lectures on various
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subjects, but especially engineering and its being met by the fees of the students.
allied studies. The lecturers' fees, apparatus, the initial cost of establishing them, however, a 1, provisional appeal is made by the corumittee for £40,000.
There is, moreover, a growing demand for literature in China. To supply it there are already at work at least ten literature and tract societies, to assist which the committee appeal. || for £20,000.
Finally, the memorial points out that the aim of the committee is not primarily evangelistic, but educational, and their appeal is, therefore, not to the supporters of any particular mis- sionary society, but to the nation as a whole. It is proposed that this National Furad shall be administered in England by a board, includ- ing the honorary treasurers and an advisory committee, one-half the members of which
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and lecture room are provided by the Governi ment, supplemented by certain Chinese contri- butions and students' fees.
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Neither is the metal side of “education " (in the fullest sense of the word) overlooked, for t foremost among the objects which the Univer-b sity should keep before it is placed the training of character.
I would hope [writes his Excellency] that the graduates of Bong-kong would establish for thera- solves a reputation as patriotic and loyal citizens whether of this colony er of China; that during their sojourn here they shall learn to appreciate British idents of justice and fair play; in short, that, while remaining in every respect Chinese, the University shali turn out men of upright character and not merely pour new wine into old bottles and evolve machines capable of passing examinations, but incap- Fable of moral control.
shall be representatives of the missionary ! It would seem that here are precisely objects
societies and the other half representatives of fe the emergency committee.
at which the China Emergency Committee aims: li
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