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...association decided, because so many Orientals are coming to U. S. universities, to investigate the status of universities in the Orient...
Bishop Roots, who has been a missionary in China for thirty years, returned to America last June and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University. He is returning to the Orient next month...
...whole the change from conservative to radical is a good one, for it opens more opportunity for the spread of Christianity in the Orient. Indifference and self-complacency are the largest obstacles a missionary has to overcome. The new spirit of radicalism may include opposition to Christianity, but even that is a great help to our cause; for interest in religion, whether it be evidenced by opposition or not, causes more people to join the ranks of the Christians in China than does indifference. The real characteristic of the student movement is they spirit of inquiry...
...second question to be brought up in the final meeting of the Association was of international interest in education--that of the relations of American universities with those in the Orient and especially in Japan and China. The decision to inquire into the status of universities in the Orient was considered necessary because of the increasingly large number of students from these schools to enter the universities and colleges of this country. The report of the investigation will be published jointly by the Association of American Universities and the American Council on Education...
...General Wood affirms, this situation is the one black blot on American prestige in the Orient . . . stories of little girls confined in chicken coops because they would not accede to the demands of their masters; stories of girls traded to Chinamen for pigs...