ABSTRACT
Stuart kept a close eye on changes and developments in international circumstances, which distinguished him from presidents of other private universities in China. Stuart clearly saw through Japan's outrageous actions and attempts. In the summer enrolment of 1938, the Japanese requested Stuart that he admit Japanese students to Yenching. The facts show that, as friend and supporter of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang government and as a missionary and educator who regarded China as a second home, Stuart was unwilling to see that the war caused troubles to the Chinese government and brought disaster to the Chinese people and neither would he like to see the US government's interests in China damaged by Japan's aggression. Hearing the news about Yenching's continuation in Peiping, he immediately sent a personal letter to Stuart and criticized him, intimating that not closing Yenching was against Chinese government policy of preventing the Japanese forces from striking roots in China.
