Harbin, June 1.
Harbin educationalists are seeing the error of their ways, They have discovered that an intense knowledge of cosmography, a physicians's acquaintanceship with psychology, a {riendly understanding with ogc and a real intimacy with the geogra~ phical details of the world form poor padding for the youth who has to brave the icy blasts of life in search for positions which will keep the equivalent of the Siberian wolf from the door. Now practical training is the word from the time the youngsters enter the lowest of what 1s at present known as the folk schools.
Until recently masses of inedible information was literally thrust into the children, exactly the same form of learning which was dispensed in Russia of Czarist times. Even the uniforms were the same. Stately ceremonials and solemn rituals featured graduation day with the highlight "being the White Ball, almost ecclesiastically dignified in its bearing.
Forth then stepped these sprightly youths to take the places in the world they had been led to. believe was awaiting them, Dour disappoint. ment, drastic disillusionment had to be met. Disgruntled, they learned bitterly that they had' almost nothing to offer to induce employees to try them out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.