Hangchow, Dec. 30.
The Boy Scouts are the latest to form themselves into an Association. Yesterday they commandeered the Educational Association Hall to hold a meeting. It was resolved to send letters to each branch in the Province calling on all belonging to the Scout movement to join. On reply rules will be drawn up.
Later in the day a meeting of the Provincial School-Inspectors was held with the President of the Educational © Association in the chair. In his opening speech he laid stress on the place Chinese literature and language should take in Chinese education. In seemed "the thing," nowadays, the speaker said, to pooh-pooh the study of the Chinese classics. All modern science must be taught in "the language of the people." He would ask why the dignity of the Chinese language must be sacrificed to this craze for "the. New Learning." He felt the unrest of to-day to be mainly owing to the neglect of the study of pure Chinese in the schools. Character should be more dwelt on in the carrying out of the curricula. Social Service, now so popular, could not be a virtuous service unless virtue were at the root. Let the hot-headed youth of the country give the "old" some credit for something. He would remind them that ever Bolshevism was brought to a state of perfection (7) by their ancient Tao-che!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.