A brand new idea only "slowly, slowly"
The Triennial examination now progressing has been a surprise, a shock, and a disappointment to many.
A greater effort at reform or stimulant to Chancellor can hardly be conceived. progress than that: attempted by the Litera Western subjects have displaced the Chinese classics. The literary students have seen the long supreme classical essay superseded
universal History, and International Juris-'Western Mathematics, Physical Science, prudence. Any examinee who has shown any efficiency in any of these subjects has been awarded the B.A. degree to the disgust of the celestially more classical student, whose assumed contempt has expressed itself thus:—"The Literature of thousands of years is useless. It must be left for the (#48) Mixed Learning of the Westerners." The irony was not concealed. #2! The suddenness and completeness of the effort has given success where under enters the brain of an average Chinese.
I} ordinary circumstances success could not was on a boat with an unusually thoughtful man, and he was telling me low be uss have been achieved. A family of brothers were plucked at the first examina-studying geography under a foreign teacher tion of the prefect. Three of them obtained and had gotten it clear now at last that the their B.A. last week. The only student who earth is round, and "See," he continued, did the whole of the Mathematical papers "here is a proof of it—this water flowing and thereby obtained his B.A. is a student of from one place to another. How could that the Chinese and Western College in this be unless the earth were vaund city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.