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a member of the board which drew up the plan of a national system of 

 education. For example, the course of study prescribed for students of 

 mining is exactly that of the University of Kyoto as given on p. 251 of 

 this Journal for March. 



The plan of organization for the Imperial University at Peking, as 

 translated by Y. Hawkes Pott, is as follows : 



1. Faculty of Classics; 10 courses, among which are: (a) The Book 

 of Changes; (6) The Book of Annals; (c) The Book of Poetry; (d) 

 Spring and Autumn Annals; (e) Eites; (/) Confucian Analects, and 

 the Books of Mencius, with commentaries; (g) Philosophy. 



2. Faculty of Jurisprudence; 2 courses: (a) Administration; (&) 

 Legislation. 



3. Faculty of Arts; 9 courses: (a) History of China; (&) Universal 

 history; (c) General geography; (d) Geography of China; (e) Geog- 

 raphy of England; (/) Geography of France; (g) Geography of Ger- 

 many; (Ji) Geography of Eussia; (i) Geography of Japan. 



4. Faculty of Medicine ; 2 courses: (a) Medicine; (&) Pharmacy. 



5. Faculty of Science; 6 courses: (a) Mathematics; (&) Astronomy; 

 (c) Physics; (d) Chemistry; (e) Natural history; (/) Geology. 



6. Faculty of Agronomy; 4 courses: (a) Agriculture; (&) Chemistry 

 relating to agriculture ; (c) Forestry; (d) Veterinary science. 



7. Faculty of Engineering; 6 courses: (a) Civil engineering; (b) 

 Mechanical engineering; (c) Electrical engineering; (d) Architecture; 

 (e) Industrial chemistry; (/) Mining engineering and metallurgy. 



8. Faculty of Commerce; 3 courses: (a) Banking and insurance; 

 (h) Commerce and transportation; (c) Customs. 



All these courses are expected to be covered in 3 years, except 

 medicine and law, for which 4 years is allowed. It is allowable for 

 provinces to establish universities, which must conform to this scheme. 

 At the Pei-Yang University, of Chili Province, the courses 2(a), 7(a),. 

 and 7(/) have been organized and in other provinces more or less 

 effective universities have been founded. The University at Peking is 

 still in course of development and I do not know the exact stage reached 

 at the date of writing. It is evident that Faculty 1 and Faculty 3 are- 

 sops thrown to the former literati of the old school. The best work 

 under this scheme has been done by the Pei-Yang University, referred 

 to again later, which has for some years had an adequate staff of 

 American professors. 



So much for the plan ; what of its fulfillment ? From the viewpoint 

 of the difficulty of the task it is remarkable that so much has already 

 been done, in the face of so many unfavorable circumstances as have- 

 developed. The progress in Chihli province is shown by the following- 

 figures, taken from the report of the provincial board of education for 

 1907. If later reports were at hand they would undoubtedly show a 



