A CELESTIAL 'VARSITY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 10

A CELESTIAL 'VARSITY.

» Influential meetings will be held at Oxford, Cambridge, and at the Mansion House during the next few weeks in fcupport of tho scheme promoted by English and Scottish Universities to establish a university in China, which should make it unnecessary for the Chinese to tjet Western education in any other country than their own, said the Daily Chronicle of 4th February. The site chosen for the scheme, as the result of a journey undertaken by Lord William and Lady Florence Cecil, at the request of the Oxford and Cambridge Committee, is Hankow, which is the centre of the railway and river communications of China, and the project has met witb a warm welcome from Chinese educationists. A number of men of the highest intellectual attainments have already offered their services as teachers in the university. To train these men and establish the university within the next five years will cost, it is calculated, £50,UU0, aud to endow it at all udequately some £200,000 more. The land will cost £20,000.

Mrs. Harnman, widow of the "railway king," has (reports a London paper) taken a leaf out of the book of Mrs. Hetty Green by acquiring the control of the Night and Day Bank. She will be the first woman banker in the history of New York, for, contrary to t&e universal belief, Mrs. Green has never actually controlled the destinies of the banks in which she is interested. The Night and Day Bank is the only one in New York which keeps open for the twenty-four hours. It had support from its foundation from Mr. Harnman. Mrs. Harriman, it is reported, will take new business offices above the Night and Day Bank, of which Mr. Charles C. Tegethoe, private secretary of the dead "railway king," is to be appointed a director. The fact that negroes, who are co closely connected with the sugar-cane, and tnko large quantities of sugar, have beautiful sets of pure white teeth proves that sugar is not injurious in this direction. The Madras Government has offered a £70 reward for the destruction of a tiger which has created panic in the Gan jam villages, having in tho past three years killed upwards of 150 people, carrying some of them off from among bands of twenty and thirty men. A reward of £16 previously offered has proved inadequate, local shikaris being afraid to approach the creature's haunts.