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. And this not without reason as we
shall proceed to show.
In 1901 he was made Governor-General of the metropolitan
province, and Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent. In 1902 he
was decorated with the Yellow Jacket, placed in charge of the
affairs of the Northern Railway, and consulting minister to
counsel the government. Wherever he was he gave as much attention
to the city government as to that of the province or the nation,
and in spite of his having no foreign education himself, he began
building up a system of public schools in his province like which
there is nothing else in the whole of China. Let us remember also
that during ail this time there was suspended over his head, from
the palace, a sword of Damocles which was liable to fall at any
time. But we will explain that further on as it is the last act
of the drama.
When Yuan went to Tientsin as Viceroy of the metropolitan
province he found there Dr. C. D. Tenny, the president of the
Tientsin University which had been begun by Li Hung-chang some
ten or a dozen years before. It had a good course of study and
was turning out a large number of young graduates for whom there
ought to be a better future than that of interpreters in the
various business houses of that and other cities. He therefore
called Dr. Tenny to him and inquired particularly about the
system of public school education throughout the United States.
"What is to prevent our putting into operation such a system
throughout this province?" asked the Viceroy
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