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(B) Research Fellowships.

We have no recommendations to make regarding

Little in this

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