Plenipotentiarivs are refusing to sign the Convention with the Russian Minister, even as modified by their own sug: Educational.
Turning from this political questi-n, something more may be said on the educa: tional question. A new Edict has been issued concerning the University, ordering the Chancellor, Shang Pai-hsi, to-have a true heart and do everything thoron-lily The Memorial of Chang Pai-si, on which the Edict is based, "is a very finely worded document. Being a high literary scholar, he falls into the swell of an elegant style, and, wrought up to an ardent enthusiasm, he pictures the scope and maynificance of the institution he plains to establish. He is to be commended for his only a High School, and not the highest high ideal, but we fear the result will be graded college in the Empire, The New University.
The Memorialist plans as part of the ersity a translation bureau, a. first. class library, anda complete museum and laboratory. The funds, som: 00,000 taels per annum, drawn from the Russian bank, being insufficient, the Throne is asked to direct the Governors and Viceroys 40 help in collecting the amount needed. Tue Edict issues the order.
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