The other, Wong Fun, went to Scotland in 1850, and after two years general study entered the Medical Department of Edinburgh University, at which he graduated with very high honor. Returning to China in 1856, he began the practice of medicine in the city of Canton and is most highly esteemed on all that coast, both for his private character and for his professional talents, being held by many foreign residents the ablest physician in the whole region of the East beyond Calcutta. Wong Fun died Oct. 15th, 1878.
IN YALE COLLEGE
Yung Wing, after two years and a half spent
at Monson, Mass., was, in 1850, though but
poorly fitted for want of time, admitted to the
Freshman Class in Yale College. His career in
college was, in some respects, a remarkable one.
Owing to his inadequate preparations, he did not,
though he worked hard, take a high stand in
general scholarship, yet he excelled in the
departments of writing and metaphysics, and
made a sensation that was felt beyond the
college walls by bearing off repeated prizes for
English composition. Throughout his entire
course he contended with poverty, a circumstance
