Reciprocity

Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity was announced. With money derived from staging their native dramas at International House, Manhattan, Japanese students established the first Oriental scholarship ever offered to U. S. students, open to "the most promising student" wishing to complete his or her studies at a Japanese university.