The retiring Vie-roy of the Lions Kuang, Tao Mu, has shown his apprecia ion of foreign learning in a recent memorial He recommends to the Thron+ thit the hoary system ut govern nent exammnatio +s in China be transformed into somethin more yearly approwhing the demawls the present age. He also recommen manlike Me. Yen Fu, of the Kaiping M and Mr. Wu Kuang.chien, the Sub-Direefor of the Nanyang Collee, be given the Hanlin or Chinese degrees, at once, in recognition of the new foreign lear: This would prove the desire of the Govern. ment: for reform in this pur-ieul er.
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