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ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND'S THREE BOOKS THAT "LINK EAST AND WEST"
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5. "Of what importance is the study of chemistry to the
agriculturist?"
While Yuan Shih-kai was Governor of Shantung he induced Dr. W. M.
Hayes to resign the presidency of the Presbyterian College at
Teng Choufu and accept the presidency of the new government
college at Chinanfu the capital of the province. Dr. Hayes drew
up a working plan of grammar and high schools for Shantung which
were to be feeders to this provincial college. This was approved
by the Governor, and embodied in a memorial to the throne, copies
of which the Empress Dowager sent to the governors and viceroys
of all the provinces declaring it to be a law, and ordering the
"viceroys, governors and literary chancellors to see that it was
obeyed."
Dr. Hayes and Yuan Shih-kai soon split upon a regulation which
the Governor thought it best to introduce, viz., "That the
Chinese professors shall, on the first and fifteenth of each
month, conduct their classes in reverential sacrifice to the Most
Holy Confucius, and to all the former worthies and scholars of
the provinces." Dr. Hayes and his Christian teachers withdrew,
and it was not long until those who professed Christianity were
excused from this rite, while the Christian physicians who taught
in the Peking Imperial University were allowed to dispense with
the queue and wear foreign clothes, as being both more convenient
and more sanitary.
When Governor Yuan was made viceroy of Chihli, he requested Dr
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