Mou's Institute has now the honour to resent i's Report on the progress of the natitute during the past six months, In a small community and amid so many counter-attractions, the difficulties that have to be encountered in the establishment of a Society like that of the Young Mon's Institute are not few. It la, however, the pleasant duty of the Com: mittee to report that the Institute has satisfactorily overcome these obstacles, has outlived that period of ridicule which frequently accompanies the earl; Li elf existence of such So
Our num by the untin of one member and by the resignation of another, Allowing for this reducti are at umber which may an earnest of future increase, as the advantages of the Institute become more widely known and its objects more the: rougtily appreciated, programme drawn up at the commencement of the Session has been closely adhered to, except as regards the dates of the meetings which, owing to unforeseen circum hay in one or two instances, undergo alteration, Since the Committee was the 19th January, th clusive of th eight meetings of f these members it iting friends, whilst the were open to members only. The subjects introduced were of an interesting and instructive character; they consisted of an address on "Culture"" at the opening meeting; debates on the respective merits of the Literary and Scientific Elements in Higher Education, on English Spelling Reform, and on Chinese Representation in the Municipal Government of the Foreign Settlements of Shanghai; lectures on "The Great Pyramid," and on the Micro-Essay on Thomas Carlyle; and from Arnol i Considering the neck in which the programme had to pared, the Insti ing able to secure, at short notice, the aid of tlemen competent to deal with the objects mentioned. But one debate, it will be observed, had for its object the resolution of a local problem—a problem which for the junior residents of the Settlement, at least, if not for the is of the t importance, aluco, or later, it will have to be treated officially, and then upon its issue the very existence of the Foreign Settlements as such may depend. It is well, in the meanwhile, to be prepared with the arguments that may be advanced on both sides of the question,
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