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Mr. Wen Shih-lin was born at Tientsin, Chihli Province, in 1871. He entered the Peiyang Naval Pilot School in 1886. Owing to bodily weakness, he left the school before graduation. In the following years Mr. Wen devoted himself to educational and social works. In 1990 he founded one boy school and one girl school at Tientsin; two daily papers; one middle school for girls; vocational school; one girls' oratory club; one kindergarten; and several lecture halls. Subsequently Mr. Wen organized the Chihli Self Government Discussion Institution; Association for the