The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

education has been created to devise
means to introduce Western education
and an elaborate system Of schools Of
different grades has been established,
The plan Is to have one or more ele-
mentary schools In every magistracy.
middle schools In perfectures, colleges
at the capitals Of the provinces and a
university at Picking, In addition to
normal schools for teachers at points
which may be judged advisable. In
view Of what Japan has accomplished
In recent years. China Is looking to
her as model and for helm. and II
has been openly announced by Chinese
statesmen that their aim Is to pattern
the university Of Picking after the
Toxic university.
Under the present law of China
education Is not compulsory. Chinese
boys when they reach the age of seven
years are eligible to enter elementary
schools. which are divided into two
grades, the first and second. with five
and four year courses respectively
The course in the first grade elemen-
tary school includes eight different
subjects, moral training, Chinese clas-
sizes, Chinese literature, arithmetic.
history, geography, sciences and
eymnast1c exercises In addition to
these the second class elementary
schools include drawing as ninth
subject instruction is given in these
schools IN the mandarin dialect, and
no foreign language is taught until the
BOY is admitted into the middle school,
me nVe-year curriculum in the latter
includes foreign languages, which may
be Japanese, English, German, French
or russian, at the choice of the stu
dent. The curriculum also includes
physics, chemistry, and political econ
omy.
After being graduated from the mid
die school the student can AMY fnr
admission to college. where, in three
years. he will be fitted for the uniyer-
sity, in which specialized courses of
law. medicine and surgery. agriculture,
literature, etc., are given English is
compulsory in the college, the other
foreign languages being elective. The
courses as planned in the university
represent high order of practical
technical and professional instruction,
but at present the matter has hardly
gone beyond the theoretical stage, the
university still lacking apparatus and
instructors, its proposed housing being
converted temples and examination
halls.
These Chinese schools are not pub
lie schools in the American sense. The
matter of support is left to the officials
OF the several provinces. The proyin-
ciai officials. In turn, leave it to the
of1icials of the different districts and
sub-districts. The schools now exist
ing In line with this plan of education
are supported largely by tuition paid
by the pupils, by special local taxes.
by gifts from wealthy people and by
any other means which may be avail
able. In some provinces a certain por
ton of the general taxes is set aside
for the establishment and maintenance
OF the schools. In practically all of
them, however, tuition is charged, and
their support is more or less precari-
Gus and unsatisfactory.
No doubt one reason why more
Chinese students have not visited the
United States in the last year is be-
cause of the immigration restrictions.
A year ago there were about twenty
fve hundred. Chinese students in
Japan, and now there are fully n
thousand more. There is, on the part
OF the Chinese oMcials concerned. a
strongly marked disposition to send
students who intend studying abroad
to Japan. rather than to European
countries or the United States. The
antt-American feelings of the last ten