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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY

The 'Clear Far-seeing Tower' or Lookout in the Midst of the
Examination Halls at Nanking.

special ceremonies. Under him, the system of education, dimly begun before Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees and continued till to-day, took on most of its modern aspects, so that 627 A. D. may be taken as the real birth time of this method of preparing statesmen by study and degrees. The colleges in Peking and all the chief cities were coordinated, and the officers of the empire recruited from the examination halls. These literary degrees in China dating from the seventh

Main Corridor, Examination Halls, Canton. Long rows of stalls on either side at right angles to the walk.