From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . he English student was familiarizedwith the ribald poetry of Horace. Since the suppression of the Boxer outbreak,the entire system of private study and tri-ennialexaminations has been done away with. Inmany places the old rows of examination cellshave been torn away and have been replacedwith modern schools. Such was the case atChentu, capital of the province in whichthe writer was located. In the very heart of thecity lies a walled enclosure about half a milelon
From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . he English student was familiarizedwith the ribald poetry of Horace. Since the suppression of the Boxer outbreak,the entire system of private study and tri-ennialexaminations has been done away with. Inmany places the old rows of examination cellshave been torn away and have been replacedwith modern schools. Such was the case atChentu, capital of the province in whichthe writer was located. In the very heart of thecity lies a walled enclosure about half a milelong. The wall is enormously heavy in frontwhere it is pierced by three great tunnel-likeentrances. This was probably once the abode ofthe Kings before Kubla Khan conquered theprovince as related by Marco Polo. Ever sincethose days it has been dedicated to official , it is literally filled with governmentschools. Some of these are industrial, othersnormal, others hard to classify. One wouldimagine such an area would hold all the re-formatory and educational institutions forwhich there would be any need in the city, but. SERVANT AXIJ POLICEMAN. Spragnc, photc 117 as a matter of fact there are many more in otherquarters. To adequately describe them allwould fill a volume. The writer has no inten-tion of trying to do anything more than touchupon the subject here. Suffice it to say that thenew system of secondary and higher educationrecognizes the value of a knowledge of modernlanguages and science. In all of the more im-portant cities of the eighteen provinces, it hasprovided for middle schools at which thosesubjects are commenced. These are supple-mented by Provincial Colleges located at thecapitals, where the work begun in the MiddleSchools can be carried further. Wherever hewent in Western China, the writer found theMiddle Schools, frequently in cities whose sizewould hardly seem to warrant their presence,and it was everywhere evident that the publictook a pride and an
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