Letter from the Imperial Chinese Legation to Jacob Gould Schurman, May 30, 1906.

The number of Chinese students at Cornell was expanded in 1906 when the Trustees voted at their meeting of June 20, 1906 to establish six undergraduate scholarships a year for the benefit of Chinese students. President Theodore Roosevelt later agreed to remit the indemnity charged against China for the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and to use the funds for the scholarships.