CHAPTER XVII
THE CHINESE EDUCATIONAL
MISSION
Taking advantage of their presence, I seized
the opportunity to press my educational scheme
upon the attention of Ting Yih Chang and
urged him to present the subject to the Board of
Commissioners of which Tsang Kwoh Fan was
president. I knew Ting sympathized with me in
the scheme, and I knew, too, that Tsang Kwoh
Fan had been well informed of it three years
before through Governor Ting. Governor Ting
took up the matter in dead earnest and held
many private interviews with Tsang Kwoh Fan
as well as with the other members of the
Commission. One evening, returning to his
headquarters very late, he came to my room and
awakened me and told me that Viceroy Tsang
and the other Commissioners had unanimously
decided to sign their names conjointly in a
memorial to the government to adopt my four
propositions. This piece of news was too much
to allow me to sleep any more that night; while
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