. Diaries and letters. y dollars^ supplies him with board andlodging yi?? one year. The whole of his ex-penses, including school fees, are about sevendollars* a month. For his room and threeample meals a day he pays every four weeksonly one yen eighty-five sen,—not much morethan a dollar and a half in American currency.^If very, very poor, he will not be obliged towear a uniform; but nearly all students of thehigher classes do wear uniforms, as the cost [|i] 1- quarters ^gj^/f, %f)\o 2- figure = price fgg^^ 3. ^twenty dollars ll-iIil, imViVtm-irn-W^^^J^^^ — 91 - ^^^(Drm^K^^^xh^o&mm^zi^c- n& se
. Diaries and letters. y dollars^ supplies him with board andlodging yi?? one year. The whole of his ex-penses, including school fees, are about sevendollars* a month. For his room and threeample meals a day he pays every four weeksonly one yen eighty-five sen,—not much morethan a dollar and a half in American currency.^If very, very poor, he will not be obliged towear a uniform; but nearly all students of thehigher classes do wear uniforms, as the cost [|i] 1- quarters ^gj^/f, %f)\o 2- figure = price fgg^^ 3. ^twenty dollars ll-iIil, imViVtm-irn-W^^^J^^^ — 91 - ^^^(Drm^K^^^xh^o&mm^zi^c- n& seven dollars gp ^-bHU^fiSilil^^j: ^J o 5- currency JSg^ 92 — of a complete uniform, including cap and shoesof leather, is only about three and a hall yenfor the cheaper quality. Those who do notwear leather shoes, however, are required,while in the school, to exchange their noisywooden geta for zori or light straw sandals. — 93 koH^\.^^0{Xmi[klt h^^^&^^L^T^^k mKr^mi\t^-A^^i3.[^:^ ^:^v>o — 94 —. XII UT the mental education so ad-mirably Imparted in an or-dinary middle school is not,after all, so cheaply acquiredby the student as might beimagined from the cost of living and the lowrate of school fees. For Nature exacts aheavier school fee, and rigidly collects herdebt—in human life.^ To understand why, one should rememberthat the modern knowledge which the modernIzumo student must acquire upon a diet ofboiled rice and bean-curd was discovered,developed, and synthetised by minds strength-ened upon a costly diet of flesh. Nationalunderfeeding- offers the most cruel problemwhich the educators of Japan must solve in [If hi 0^ omHHfiM < o ;t!*Tt) a. - 95 — 2, underfeeding :j;-t-^f£2>B^if^o _ 96 - order that she may become fully able toassimilate the civilisation we have thrust uponher. As Herbert Spencer has pointed out,the degree of human energy, physical orintellectual, must depend upon the nutritivenessof food ; and history shows that the well-fedraces h
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