University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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12 'fTI-IE LINGUIST FOREWO RD. Perhaps only the newcomer would be so bold as to undertake the publication of a book with the avowed purpose of Thr: Linguist this year. The justification of the task must rest with our readers. To state the primary purpose specifically, it is to make articulate the first year's reactions of the resident student body of the Language School, to the conditions in Chinaias we find and understand them. And. in addition to this purpose it is hoped that this volume will furnish reminders of the many happy associations together. At the outset, we are mindful of the general unfairness of first impressions. The newcomer to any country enters, so to speak, by the back gate and is apt to see more, in proportion, of the unsavory conditions than one who is a long resident. It is rarely that the first year's resident comes to know the best features of a country. For this reason it is not the intention of the editorial staff to exaggerate many features of China that have been used in the past perhaps too often to arouse interest in the work for China. It is rather to give our readers glimpses of our visions of the fundamental forces that are at work or must be put to work in this period of renaissance in China. We may have undervalued some and overvalued others. Consequently The Linguist can in no wise compete with the works on China written by residents of long standing. Nor is it the intention that it should. It is only hoped that our first year's impressions will find a corresponding appreciation in the minds of thinking persons in the Home lands and will both arouse interest in and create friends for China at a time of her greatest need for guidance and counsel of true friends. The plan of the book is to make a brief survey ofthe several fields of endeavor in China coupled with a projection of the work to be done. as well as to givea close up of the activities of our first year at Language School. The subjects are listed in the table of contents. NVithout the full and generous cooperation of the entire student body this book would have been impossible, and the Editor wishes to take this opportunity to bespeak his lasting appreciation of the counsel, inspiration and assistance from the staff individually and from the Student body as a whole throughout the work of publishing The Linguist. In response to the call for material much more has come in than could possibly be included within the covers of this volume. And the selection has had to be made on the basis of representative articles as well as to length. For this generous response the Editor is very thankful. W. C. L.

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'lTHE LINGUIST 11 C O N T E N T S BY GENERAL TOPICS 1 Page Chinese Medicine . 14 ff The Glad Evangel . . 21 ff Education, The Ten Per Cent .... . 33 if Social Aspects of the Confiict of Two Civilizations 40 ff Jottings from Chinese History . . . 48 ff Famines and Their Prevention. 55 rf Chinese Athletics . , .62 , The Language School . . 63 1? From the Eastyand from the NVest . 67 ll School Calendar .... 71 Activities outside the Curriculum . 78 China for christ-Hymn . . 85 i A Day at Language School 87 tif Learning Chinese . 91 Daily Chapel Service . 95 hc Social Life . . . 97 H' The Language School Play 103 As the Guest of an official . 106 Seeing Palestine in China. 109 Whatto take to China . 113

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ANCIENT LIND OF CHINA ANCIENT LAND OF CHINA Oh ancient land of China, Four thousand years, the same, WVhose glory lay in wisdom, Whose scholars gave them fame 5 Oh China we all love thee, And pray that God may he Thy source of all true knowledge, Andlearning's deepest sea. Oh beautiful for rivers, A Rich plains and mountains vast, Whose voice of inspiration, Has sounded from the pastg Today, God calls thee, China, To stand with those who see, The problems of the future Have also need of thee. Though once thy gifted sages Had seen a light afar, They lost the purer radiance Of Christ, the Christmas starg His love, by faith illumed, His peace, awaiteth thee, To teach thee God, the Father, Whose truth sets all men free. May every gate be open, May every city wall Behold the new world vision, NVith Christ supreme o'er all. Lord God, raise for us leaders, That China strong may be, And thru thy Church triumphant, Attain to unity. -Margaret Dieter Sung to tune Materna