Show MANY SEEK COVETED TITLE Thousands of Young Undergo Undergo Undergo Un Un- dergo Severe Examination In Hope of Becoming Mandarins Though Chinese education Is gradually grad grad- undergoing change candidates for or the title of mandarin still gather at three three- year three intervals In Chinese cities cit cIt- le ies and the examiners sit In their robes of state under their umbrellas and conduct the examinations Ian l Many of the time younger generation nowadays s 's have imbibed a western Idea of education but many still begin with the Book Dook of Three Characters the Book of a Hundred Families Families' and the Book of a Thousand Words and anti pursue purI pursue pur pur- I sue an educational s system stem that Is held to be more than 30 centuries old to the ultimate triumph of ot becoming mandarins mandarins mandarins man man- darins and enjo enjoying ing the c ceremonial honors distinctive costume and an in individual individual in- in reputation for wisdom and learning that go with the title The examination consists In the time writing of philosophical and political essa essays s exposition exposition ex Pt- ex- ex position of the Ra sayings of Confucius commenting on Chinese texts and the composition of sentences and maxims In prose and verse The number of ot candidates at such examinations still counts up into the thou thousands Sometimes their failures one might sn say in the phrase with which western editors return contributions have been due clue to tono tono tono no lack of merit for the number of vacancies to be filled at an any one time In the list of mandarins Is very very small small compared with the number of candi candI- dates fH wp Monitor |