Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — WESTERN SPIRIT IN CHINA [ARTICLE]

WESTERN SPIRIT IN CHINA

Hoad f*f University In Yfo kret Tarittory Has Proof of Spread of Occidental Idea*. “H* tafo<bee* pretty-well all ever - the wort®* said th* prefessor, -and when'l baked him wh*t country had impressed him most, he said at onre China. And when I asked him wtat tn China had impre—od Jdm moek h « said faience, Mho- -West caUha Union univcreMy.a prefoaaor’s remarks weremate tothe IMlly Mews, and h* foitowed them up with a d*< Ilghtfoistoor** th* way tnwhteh Chinese -emthenc** Showed their appreciation of rids blossom of Western enterprise,, th* university of which the professor happens to be the prosldent,. years ago h* was floetamfor klaiifw IfoOmlles down the Yangtze to save his heed. He was a “foreign devil,” and no university had been started. fleven or eight years iatsn the mllltaiy governor * Szechuan font him a beautifully MRi scribed statement at bls : opinion of the university* and .a gift of, >B,OOO. The professor was on his way hemo Ma r«klW+.ln tho Chlo«oe capital he sod an interview with the president of the Ohiseupciupublle, then Yuan Shih* , Mal, 'who also gave him a declaration bf approval and MOW as a personal gift to the university;