The new buildings of the Provincial College, on which between two and three hundred thousand taels have' been ox-pended, were opened by the Governor in person last Monday, the 22nd inst. The dedication wax somewhat delayed owing to the buildings not being quite ready for ocoupancy—the original intention being to open the autumn term some two weeks earlier. Taotai Ch'en, the energetic director of the institution, deserves great praise for the way in which he has pushed the buildings t" completion, for the undertaking has been a very large one, there being three two-story clags-room and liberatory buildings, besides innumerable one-story houses for dormitories, dining-rooms, reading-rooms, gymnasium, eto. and
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