Word: foo
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...passage in an article in the current Harper's Monthly written by Wong Chin Foo, the editor of the Chinese newspaper published in New York, gives a very shrewd comment upon the idea of education that prevails among Americans. "We have heard of young men in this country," says Mr. Foo, drily, "who have graduated in three or four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit...