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Mr. Yuan Hsi-t'ao was born at Pao-shan Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1867. He became a Provincial Graduate in 1897. He taught in the College of Modern Languages, Shanghai. In 1904, he helped in the founding of the Lung-men Normal College, Shanghai, of which he was for sometime a professor. In 1907 he became the president of that college and at the same time he was appointed a councillor of the Educational Bureau of Kiangsu. In 1909 he was made Chief Executive Secretary of the Educational Bureau of Chihli. In 1912 Mr. Yuan became a department chief of the Ministry of Educational Inspector for the whole country under the same Ministry. In 1914 he resigned from the Ministry of Education and then made a tour throughout the different provinces to investigate educational conditions of his own accord. In October 1915 he