The Literary Chancellor of this province, at the recent examinations in Wuting-fu, took away the degree of a young B.A, who, being a student in the Chinan College, could not return home for. the examinations. The Chancellor lis been hostile to the new institution from the first, and now uses this method of showing the recalcitrants what they may expect if they do not: speedily repent. As the examinations in the various prefectures are necessarily at different times, the College authorities foresaw the impossibility of allowing students to be continually going off in detachments to attend them, an! so refused any requests to attend outside of Chinan, This affords the Chancellor an opportunity of striking dismay into the hearts of the fifty or sixty B.A.'s, among the students, and also showing those who have not attained such honours the futility of expecting literary distinction, if they still persist in endangering themselves, or te use his own words). Chancellors elsewhere will probably follow the example of this bigot, and so not only Christians will be excluded from these schools, but also that numerous lass who, while desirous of the ne~ learning, still value the old style de ice. The fact that the Imperial Government, knowing the animus of this man, still leaves him in his present position, speaks volumes for the sincerity of its eagerness for eduestional reform, and also indicates "On what meat this Cresar feeds that he doth feel so great."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.