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We call attention to the fact that according to the fourth of
these edicts the death of the Emperor is put at from 5 to 7 P. M
on the evening of the 14th of November, while that of the Empress
Dowager is from 1 to 3 P. M. of the same day at least two hours
earlier, and that in her last edict she is made to speak of the
death of Kuang Hsu. Whether these dates have become mixed in
crossing to America we have not been able to ascertain, though we
think it more than likely that her death occurred on November
15th instead of the 14th.
XXII
The Court and the New Education
Abolish the eight-legged essay. Let the new learning be the test
of scholarship, but include the classics, history, geography and
government of China in the examinations. The true essay will then
come out. If so desired, the eight-legged essay can be studied at
home; but why trouble the school with them, and at the same time
waste time and strength that can be expended in something more
profitable? --Chang Chih-tung in "Chinas Only Hope,"
XXII
THE COURT AND THE NEW EDUCATION
The changes in the attitude of the court towards a new
educational system began, as do many great undertakings, in a
very simple way. We have already shown how the eunuchs secured
all kinds of foreign mechanical toys to entertain the baby
Emperor Kuang Hsu; how these were supplemented in his boyhood by
ingenious clocks and watches; how he became interested in the
telegraph, the telephone, steam cars, steamboats, electric light
and steam heat, and how he had them first brought into the palace
and then established throughout the empire: and how he had the
phonograph, graphophone, cinematograph, bicycle, and indeed all
the useful and unique inventions of modern times brought in for
his entertainment
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