quest, assigned to the charge of the boys' preparatory school for that University and the University of Shanghai. Realizing the need of China for men trained in the principles of foreign law, especially at a time when the establishment of a judicial system along foreign lines was under consideration, he presented the matter to the home board and asked for permission to open a law school. The proposition was at first refused, presumably for financial reasons. The local authorities of the Southern Methodist Mission at Shanghai, however, with perhaps greater faith than the home board and a keener realization of its importance and opportunities, assured him of their moral support. And accordingly, without any endowment or promise of financial assistance from any source, without the assurance even of a single student, the announcement of the opening of the school the succeeding fall was issued in the summer of 1915..

Before a monthly meeting of the American Bar Association in China, Mr. Rankin outlined his plan for the opening of the new Law School. The President of the Association, the Hon. Charles S. Solenigier, Judge of the United States Court for China, then called a meeting of members of this Association who had agreed to give their services as lecturers gratis the first year, to consider the curriculum. A three years' course was decided upon, the course to include a study of Roman law as well as of the English common law. Constant comparison will be made with the principles and practice of Chinese law. The Faculty is composed of both Americans and Chinese. Among the former it includes, besides Judge Solenigier, Mr. Jernigan, the Dean of the American Bar of Shanghai.

WHAT THE LAW SCHOOL
MEANS TO CHINA

This law school for Chinese is unique in It is the first and only promany ways. fessional school of law in China. It is the only instance, too, of legal instruction being given under the auspices of a Christian mission.

In no country and in no age has there been so much corruption in connection with the courts as in China. This has been so deeply rooted in the past history of the country that the people have continued to this day to regard every one connected with the courts as dishonest and corrupt. The

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modern so-called Chinese "lawyers suddenly appeared after the revolution were no improvement in this respect. Many of them are practicing in the Chinese courts of the foreign settlements and native city of Shanghai to-day.

With the opening of this Law School, it is hoped, a new order of things has been inaugurated. In no other way could China's desire to do away with extra-territoriality ever be realized. The limited number of Chinese who could afford to go abroad to study law would never suffice to supply the need of educated and trustworthy judges and attorneys that China will require to make effective many reforms in her judicial system.

Shanghai is the strategic point in China for the establishment of such a school, not merely because of its great commercial importance and its central location, but also because of the existence there of the courts of the international settlements, called the "Mixed Courts," for the hearing of criminal and civil cases affecting Chinese defendants, presided over by a Chinese

magistrate in conjunction with a representative of one of the foreign consulates. This will afford the graduates of the school an opportunity for practice and will constitute a center from which they may make their influence felt in all parts of the country. It will be a proud day for the school and for China when her own sons, trained in her own country, may take their places on the bench or before the bar beside the attorneys of for- . eign countries, some of whom, indeed, will have been those who assisted in training them! That it will create in the minds of foreigners in China more confidence in the Chinese administration of justice, thus gradually paving the way for the final relinquishment of extra-territorial jurisdiction of their subjects in China, as provided by treaty, is also to be expected.

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM'S
ASIATIC EXPEDITION

Believing that they may find remains of the earliest types of men and signs that will enable them to trace the development of some of our most remarkable mammals which originated in central and eastern Asia, the Zoölogical Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History will start for that part of the world on March 17, under the leadership of Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews.

According to Mr. Andrews, "the vast Ti betan region, north of the Himalaya Mountains," is the region where remains of the early mammals, including man, may be found. The scope of the expedition is primarily zoological rather than anthropological, how

ever.

Little is known of the large territory lying south of the Yangtse River, and the expedition, which will approach Central Asia by way of China, will spend much of its time in that neighborhood, and particularly in the wild and mountainous province of Kweichau, which, says Mr. Andrews, "is probably the most interesting of all, and is certainly one of the least known." One thing that makes this province interesting is the presence of the independent tribe called the Miaotse, of which little is known. Among other places, the expedition will visit Foochow, on the coast between Shanghai and Hongkong, where an effort will be made to get a specimen of a tiger hitherto uncatalogued by science. This animal, according to a letter to the Museum from Mr. Harry R. Caldwell, an amateur. naturalist, is "a handsome beast, with a Maltese ground color."

The pursuit of a tiger somewhat similar in appearance to a large Maltese cat is not the only interesting quest of the expedition. A particular study will be made of the beautiful golden-yellow takin, which is allied to the serows and gorals, that are "in many respects intermediate between the sheep and the goats." But an effort will also be made, of course, to get a representative collection of all the birds, fish, reptiles, and mammals of the regions visited.

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The expedition will be equipped with a special motion-picture camera, just invented by Mr. Carl E. Akeley, of the American Museum, who became famous for his pictures of African animals. This camera is particularly adapted for the difficult work of making moving pictures of wild animals. other unique feature will be the equip.nent for taking colored photographs of the birds and beasts of Asia. In short, it is hoped by virtue of the photographs brought home, as well as on account of the zoological specimens secured, that the expedition will amply repay its supporters, who are Mr. James B. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Colgate, Mr. Childs Frick, Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Joline, Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bernheimer, and the Jesup Fund of the American Museum.

JUSTICE HUGHES AND THE PRESIDENCY

With Mr. Davenport's tribute to the integrity, intellectual ability, and fine patriotism of Justice Hughes in an article that appears elsewhere in this issue every honest American must agree. He should justly be ranked for character, ability, achievements, and present position as one of the foremost American citizens of the time. He combines a knowl edge of practical politics, which comes from an intimate experience in political administration, with the far-seeing vision of the statesman, which comes from a knowledge of the history of the principles that underlie our republican institutions and the moral, social, and industrial needs of a democratic people. We yield to none in our admiration for his unswerving integrity and genuine Americanism.

But we see an obstacle to his nomination as the Republican candidate for President which may prove to be insuperable.

We believe we are not mistaken in anticipating that the great issue in the coming Presidential campaign will be an international issue. The campaign will turn upon the policies of the Chief Executive with regard to the protection of American citizens on the high seas, and upon the duties and responsibilities of the National Government in its relations to foreign governments. The people will select their President next November, not because of his attitude with regard to the tariff, finance, or the industrial corporations, but with regard to such international events as are typified by the fate of Belgium and the destruction of the Lusitania, and the consequent issue of National defense. For the first time since the election of George Washington the conviction of the people of the United States with regard to the foreign policy of their Government will be the most important factor in the Presidential election.

The supreme difficulty in the way of nominating Mr. Hughes is that the people have no means by which they can discover what his foreign policy is. He has written no articles, he has made no speeches, and as Governor of the greatest State in the Union he had no occasion to perform any acts which throw any light on what he would do about foreign affairs if elected President.

And there is at present no way by which the people can obtain any light on this deeply important question, for a reason which Justice (Continued on page following illustrations)