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Dr. Feng Hsi-yun was born in 1885 at Tientsin, where members of his family have been prominent in wholesale trade and banking circles since the declining years of the Ming Dynasty. After graduating from the well-known Tientsin Government Middle School and winning for himself the Chu Jen degree, he entered Peiyang University at about the same time that Ex-Premiers Wang Chung-hui and C. T. Wang were students there. The records show him to have been faithful and diligent in every duty. In 1907, having won a provincial scholarship which provided for an advanced education in one or more of the leading American institutions, he set sail for the United Stattes. Entering Harvard University, he won the B. A. degree in three years, and two years later the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree at Chicago University, in 1912. While in the United States he travelled extensively. On Dr. Feng's return to China in 1912 he was appointed prosecuting attorney in the Chihli Provincial Court and was stationed temporarily at Paotingfu. The following year he became