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Universities China Committee to consider most carefully
whether any good purpose would be served in spending
money on sending distinguished scholars to lecture at
Universities in China. I am informed that at present
none of the Universities in Shanghai are functioning at
all. The American Missionary University in Nanking
is probably struggling to carry on its work, but the
Government University is, or was, closed down, and
when it reopens the Government will probably have no
funds for the teachers' salaries. In many places in
China, schools, as well as University colleges, are
closed. Whatever may be the outcome of the present
Shanghai imbroglio, there is likely to be a
recrudescence of the students' political activities
throughout the country generally.
4. On the subject of sending graduates to
England, the following facts will be of interest.
Recently the Metropolitan-Vickers China Export Company have offered what they call a "college" apprenticeship,
tenable in Manchester, to one of the engineering
graduates of the Hong Kong University, who comes from
Amoy. The apprenticeship is offered on terms which
should enable the apprentice to be self-supporting. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire are generously arranging with Messrs. Holts for a free passage to Liverpool.
Mr. Stanley Dodwell, of Messrs. Dodwell & Company, has
kindly secured for another of the graduates an
apprenticeship on the same self-supporting terms, with
Messrs. Norris, Henty & Gardeners, Limited, oil engine
makers, of Patricoft, Lancashire.
5.