"Phe prefectural- examinations are ended and the Literary Chancellor left yesterday morning' for' Laichoufu. It is' ramoured that he has been, degraded for. selling degrees, At the preliminary examination for the d of three questions' in the line of Western learning" were asked. They were, I. believe,.substantially the same as those asked at Chinanfu being s seri a right-angled, triangle whose 1,—What is. the area of the; square in-base is six'feet and its perpendicular nine feet? far es L know, these: questions, were answered by but three or four,.out. of the Thole timber of candidates and correctly answered by only one; that one was a graduate of Teagelion College and I am glad to. add took his degree, being fourth the list, neat? examinations rare not -coucinded fore the. Empress' Dowager's edict re-fa stating the "discarded ing arrived, Before. he Jett, the Chancellor.exhorted the studenia to resume. the -diligent. study of the ancient essay, for all things were to, be as heretofore. Blind leaders of the blind! They do not, seem to realise that the open struggle which is' to decide the fate of their country, the old: struggle. between progress and conservatism, has already been openly begun and been baptised-in blood.
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