At the fifth lecture of the series, given InstSaturday afternoon at the. International Institute, His Excellency, Wa Chung-hsi; Minister of the Imperial Ohinese Telegraph Company, was invited to take the chair. -He deputed Taotai Chou Wan-pang, Director. of the. same Company, to read his speech, in which he referred to the continuity of Chinese learning from the sage Confucius,.and Western learning from the philosophers of Greece. The question now of supreme importance was what should be. done with thie old form of learning in China, and what should be the. relations of the old and uew-learning. This would be discussed by-Dr. Gilbert Reid.
Dr. Reid expressed pleasure at the of His Excellency Wu, who was a distinguished scholar of. the. old type, and of having present Taotai Chou, who represented. the new. learning, having been a student in America for ig The-first matter tobe noted. in discussing the question. was the points of harmony or agreement between the old and: new learning. 'Lo begin. with, whether' the old. or the new. loaming was esteemed and made the. root of prosperity. Away back over 4,000 years.ago the Emperor Shun is spoken of as. making an entranes. into learning. The: Book- of Rites of 3,000. years ago states how the ancients had-a.grade of schools in village, district, department, and principality.' Mencius urges. the establishment. of: schools, for.the instruetion and..well-being of the. people. In the Trang, dynasty the system.of examinations was introduced, and.now there a ferment for schools
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