'A few days ago occurred the entrance examination to the new middle-grade school established by the Civil Governor. The applicants, numbering only about eighty, were examined only in Chinese composition. Foreign learning is something to be juggled with.
There is much talk about great changes in the University, but the new Chancellor has not announced his mind. We would not be surprised if even in the University Chinese essay writing would be supreme and all foreign branches merely rudimentary.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.