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The same principle is illustrated by the numerous scholarships instituted for the assistance of poor students. In addition to the educational scholarships already alluded to, scholarships have been founded or are maintained by the Provincial Governments of Kwangtung (Canton), Chibli, Hupeh and Yunnan and the Metropolitan Civil Government of Peking, by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong, by the China Medical Board of Peking, and by numerous firms and individuals in Hongkong and Shanghai Individual scholars supported by the Governments of Siam and Kedah may also be mentioned.
This almost cosinopolitan spirit is naturally reflected in the composition of the undergralunte body. The main body of students is naturally Chinese, and the bulk of them no less naturally come from Hongkong or Hongkong schools (the sculents in which are drawn from a very wide area) or from Malaya: but the numbers coming from North, Central and West China are sufficient to suggest that the real far to even larger numbers is that of expense rather then the sectional differences of which China is at present the victim. Less numerous elements of which mention may be made are Chinese from Australasia and from the Dutch East Indies, with a sprinkling of students of pure British descent, of Portuguese, of Japanese and of most of the races represented in the Far East.
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