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to be sent to school, who receive no education, and he considers it safe to assume that the vast majority of

these 8,000 are

girls, and that

a

" considerable number of these girls_

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are not living with their own

parents but are

purchased servant

girls living under a sort of servitude":" "It is, as he observes, against the

interests of the employer to send. these girls to school, and a partial

application of the system of compulsory

in

education would be ne

recessary order to reach this class. Dr. Eitel's

remarks on this subject (paragraph

5) seem to

me

to require

serious

consideration before his recommendation

is

is adopted, as, if compulsory education were introdused, it might have the

effect of causing

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of

these

girls, the value

thereby

whose services would be

considerably reduced, to be sent

back to China where their lot would

be

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doubt miserable in comparison

with what it is here.

4.

Dr Ecitel observes.

general steady improvement going

from year to year in the quality of teaching given in the Grant-in-

Aid Schools as well as in their

organization and discipline. The calls attention, however, to the fact that the number of soliolars presented

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