The Foreign Affairs Ministry rebuked the Chinese Educational Mission in a memorial which stated, "Customs and etiquette in the foreign country are vicious and improper. Confucian creed is lacking all the young students. They could not resist the temptations."
光緒八年，「幼童肄業局」被撤，一百廿名留學生奉召返國，離他們當年揮別揚子江畔的日子，剛好十年。