The foreign education of Chinese makes steady progress. The students of the Tientsin University are going to hold their first athletic meeting next month and have issued a comprehensive programme on the usual lines—perhaps with an over due proportion of the comic element (egg-and-spoon, sack, arithmetical races) but this is pardonable. "They have done more, they have kindly invited the students of the Naval College to come over and join with them. A friendly challenge was sent, and there is every chance that it will be accepted. E pur si move.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.