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...American volunteers. The money has not come from the government, as a mere ingratiating gesture. It has come from individuals who are personally grateful to the Americans who joined the cause before the United States entered the war. At the same time it has the dimensions of a national gift, for aside from the premiers and ex-premiers. Marshals of France and cabinet members who have contributed, every regiment in the French army and even school children have added their bits...
...committee, and then to the formation of the institute. Its aim is not to codify and thus make rigid the common law, but to restate it in terms of the decisions of the highest courts. Even this can hardly be half completed in the ten years which the Carnegie gift will finance. And with the legislative machinery of the country continuing to produce at top speed, the institute would have to become permanent...
...twenty-five millions due to her as Boxer indemnity. This has proved to be profitable altruism, for since then America and American people have stood highest in the esteem of the Chinaman. And now the foresighted British, taking a lead out of our book, have announced the gift of their remaining Boxer money to the cause of Chinese education...
...making over the money is an easy matter. The work of translating the money into education calls for careful planning and far-sightedness. By the terms of the gift England has reserved this to herself. The British nature would seem to suggest trade schools. But the Chinese do not desire trade schools. And England, of course, wants British stock to be on a par with American in China. The Manchester Guardian has suggested that the money be devoted to establishing schools in China taught by Chinese teachers, rather than to transplanting batches of Chinese students to English universities...
...long as England has taken example from our results, she might well consider what was done with our gift. When the windfall came to China in 1908, the Chinese government took the direction of it into its own hands and has used it never since to send fifty Chinese youths yearly to study in America. It is possible that these favored few have become to some degree denationalized, to some degree out of sympathy with the masses. World-weary travelers, who expected to refresh their jaded spirits in a Confucian atmosphere, have reported that China is already too Westernized...