There is a rumour up here that the Imperial Government has notified the provincial authorities that Wenchang are to be discontinued in the schools and official examinations. To those conversant with Chinese education this is a revolution and not a mere change. The Lun (i) or current essay is to be retained, but the finical and strictly artificial Pah-kn (/\ AM) with all its ultra refinements of expression and quotation and show-your-knowledge-buzz-round-the-subject but never-enter it style is to lished. We shall believe in this decree when we see it, and shall consider the Wenchang dead and buried when we are present at its refuse to give credit to the report. Nothing culture, but until then we absolutely
that has happened in the last 500 years would match such news in the minds of Chinz's scholars. They would certainly is rapidly developing the Tientsin University; anew batch of students has been enlisted from the Central Provinces, to balance the decided Southern bias of the senior classes and first admissions. There are now one hundred and fifty Inds in residence and a large extension of the building is about tobe begun. Sheng Taotai is certainly spending money liberally over his new venture,
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