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62 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.Board of Foreign Affairs, and was a direct response ofdifferent memorials which I had previously presented.The one document briefly stated that my proposal forestablishing a School of Political Science could notreceive financial assistance of the Government, inasmuchas the regulations of the Board of Education stipulatedthat such a school must be under officialmanagementand could not be under private auspices. The otherdocument, giving recognition to the work of the Institute, was far more satisfactory and encouraging.. . .This document is the fulfilment of the promise madeto me personally, and contained in the Imperial Sanction"of March, 1897 When his plan for the Institute:goes into operation, if the actuality answers to the prospectus, producing good and not evil, this Board will,after due investigation, confer additional tokens of approval." During the last thirteen years there havebeen many vicissitudes of shadow and light, of encouragements and discouragements, but there is a feeling ofgreat satisfaction with us and with the friends of theInstitute that at last another official sanction has beenreceived from the Government in Peking.Besides this formal recognition, which has beenrendered by one of the Boards in Peking, we havereceived many letters from officials in different parts ofChina expressing their approval and goodwill. Thecircumstances attending the reception, which was givenus a few weeks since, in view of our departure to theStates, were also most pleasing to us, and could not butstrengthen us in our purpose to persevere in the workwhich had been undertaken. As something unusual inShanghai, greetings were given by representatives ofone of the Boards in Peking, the Board of Posts andCommunications, of four Viceroys and four Governors,as well as from H. E. Sheug Kung-pao, a Vice-Presidentof one of the Peking Boards, but residing in Shanghai. Such a willingness to show encouragement on thepart of the officials, from Mukden in the North to Can-