The money is furnished by public-spirited literati and retired officials of the city. There are fifty students from the best families. English is not taught, but "Western science" studied with the aid of text be Chinese. One very unique and significant feature is that the students wear a uniform of European style, A Prince Albert coat of dark cloth looks strange when worn by a Chinese young man ids his hair. They do not their heads, but they have not yot discarded the sign of Manchu supremacy over their race. There is no foreigner connected with the school. The whole movement is very significant of what is going on among the young man who will be the leaders of China in a very fow years.
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