CHAPTER X 89-96

The educational system--Long hours of study and no fresh air or exercise--Take Jonescu, as Minister of Education, introduces the bath-tub to the schools and provides for walking exercise--School fare is never good--A water famine--Examinations and show questions--English poetry translated literally--German literature taught in _French_, the pupils being examined in _Roumanian_--Lack of books in the Roumanian language--The school fêtes--Convents and proselytising--A girl who despised all the pleasures of the world and ran away to become a nun.