The students in many parts of the province now find the big, men interfering with their rightful means of school revenue, Something Uke this takes place: the warlord opens a school, it may be For the training of young officers. Hee opens another school, it may be for the training of young doctors. He further opens another school, probably for the training of agita-{ora Graduation is in six months.
The graduate, after six months of wasted time, puts on his visiting card that he is a graduate of the School of Finance. Now, to carry on these schools, the big' gun says hho must have money and, as the work is, schoo! work, naturally he appropriates money from the school revenue. The. scholars graduate; the schools close; the students look for important positions; the appro-Priation goes on. The school authorities object, the political author-{ties defeat the educational author-ties, and the scholastic progress in the province cameo to a standstill.
pressing the farmers is perhaps not Crashing the merchants and op-50 serious as interfering with the educational authority of the pro-Vince, "A-spurious aystem of edueation is being instituted of which many young men are only too glad to take advantage, The serious minded Chinese student with a real love for education for its own sake becoming as rare as good coins in this large and wealthy province. The school revenue in a considerable part of the province now ie. pre-req ite of the big man and to show The what 'a big man he really. is he generously opens schools at his owe expense, "Everything is free; wniform, tuition, board, accommodation." If the provincial school authorities want to know how to
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