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(B) Research Fellowships.
We have no recommendations to make regarding
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the provision of scholarships tenable by Chinese undergraduate
students in British schools or colleges. direction could be accomplished by the Universities China Committee out of its slender resources. We are strongly of
opinion that the Committee should confine itself to the estab- lishment of a few Research Fellowships to be held by Chinese graduates in England and also (occasionally) by British gradu-
ates in Chine. The fellowships should be granted to advanced
students who have already distinguished themselves in particular
lines of research or have given evidence that they are likely
to distinguish themselves hereafter if given the benefit of
a course of further study in Great Britain or in China as the
case may be. We do not wish to discourage the foundation of
scholarships for carefully-selected Chinese unde graduate students
in Great Britain, but we are definitely of opinion that the small
amount available for the subsidising of students out of the fund
at the Committee's disposal mon could best be utilised in the
manner indicated.
On the general question of the advantages and
disadvantages of sending immature youths WW from an Eastern to a
Western country for their education, we invite attention to a
paper read by Sir Thomas H.Holland, Principal and Vice-chancellor
of the University of Edinburgh, on July 10th last, before the
Congress of Universities of the Empire. In this paper he
argued very forcibly that undergraduates from foreign countries
are handicapped in their work by the distractions of a strange
social as well as a new academic atmosphere. He added that
mainly to this cause the numerous instances of failure could
generally be traced. He drew attention to the erroneous
but too common assumption that an undergraduate from overseas
cannot usually get as good a general education in his own
country as he can in Britain; and he pointed out that so far from university life in England having the necessary effect of