University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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62 THE LINGUIST CHINESE ATHLETICS. Two age old Chinese conceptions militate against the full adoption of athletics and sportsmanship in athletic contests by Chinese students. Physical prowess and scholarship have been and still are to a very great extent considered exclusive of each otherg muscular strength is indicative of the coolie class and feeblencss of the gentleman and scholar. And even in the modern institutions of higher learning despite the campaigns for athletics many of the more intellectual students are invalids or die of tuberculosis. And again, the question. of face hampers the athletic contest. The Chinese, by living in such crowded conditions, have developed a technique of living together that omits the personal encounter or the settling of an issue' directly by the parties concerned. The middleman is always called in to act in a dispute or in an important matter. This is done to save the face of the loser or of him whose idea does not prevail. -Thus to lose in an: athletic contest is to lose face, and is tantamount to a disgrace. Un- fortunately athletic games do not provide for the middleman, but call for the personal encounter, the matching of skill and physical strength and nerve. It is a slow and sometimes a tedious process to inculcate the conception ol sportsmanship into the athletic contests. Yet already great advancement has been made. in mission institutions- generally. Athletic associations have been organized. Conference' games are played. Despite these facts, however, awide field here exists for the developmenit of athletics in China, to make for the physical vigor of intellectual and spiritual leaders. It is only another way for conserving the efforts expended in raising up intellectual and spiritual leaders- among the Chinese. Basket Ball in China Univ. of Nanking playing Univ. of Nanyang

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A CHRONOLOGY OF FAMINES 61 1673 - Summer heavy rainfall for two months, famine. 1681-87 River Hooded continually for seven years and heavy rainfall continued also-people ran away from home-famine. 1692 Locusts Flew, covering the sky-famine. 1697 Spring drought, autumn heavy rain fall, rivers llooded--famine. 1706 Spring heavy snow, summer heavy rain fall and famine. 1709 March flood, too much rain in the fall, rivers flooded, destroyed thousands of houses- famines roots of grasses and bark of trees all eaten up The prices very high, dead along the roads. 1741 lfloocl continued during summer and autumn, famine. , 1742 Heavy rainfall through out May, no rice 1756 U crop-famine. 1756 Famine - pestilence - dead seen along the roads. 1785 Drought in the spring and locusts appeared abundantly. Famine in thc falland winter. 1786 Famine and pestilenee in the spring, good harvest and wheat in the summer. 1796 Famine. 1804 liamine in the spring. Yellow river flooded in the summer. 1833 Famine. 1843 G Famine. 1852 Summer rain over two months-all crops submerged. Peach trees flower in the 1 fall, famine. 1856 Drought in summer, locusts appeared abun- dantly. 1857 Famine in spring, heavy rain fall in autumn- all lields submerged. 1863 Famine. . 1867 Famine. 1887 Good crops 1888 Crops not prosperous. End. Note: The above list was compiled from a much longer chronology in which floods, earthquakes good harvests and droughts are recorded. Only those items, with a few exceptions, containing the translation of famine were selected for this list. The -famine of 1878-79 is' not listed but the years of 1875-76 are Credited with drought and the years 1876-77 are credited with locusts. The year 1878 is omitted.

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THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL 63 TI-IE LANGUAGE SCHOOL Years in Session- Eleven, 1912-1923. 'Growth in Students- First Year Registration- 47. Growth- Second to Sixth Year- 21.69Z, Seventh to Eleventh- 128.47'Z, Average Growth 75.08'Z, 'TotalNumberof Students to Date 870 Spread of Students from the School- According to statistics available we End that students have gone to all but two of the interior provinces of China, and also to Mongolia and Manchuria. A total of thirty-one ,have either re- turned to their home countries, or have made changes in their China. residence that we are unable to follow. Based on the above 19 areas, 81.692, are in five provinces 18.4W, are in thirteen provinces or U.S.A. Kiangsu ...377 Hunan -- ...114 Anhwei .. 95 Chekiang 08 Kiangsi .. 56 Fukien .. 20 I-Iupeh .. 18 Szechuen 18 Honan .. 16 Shantung , 15 Kwantung... . 12 Chihli... 11 Kwcichow... . 9 Yunnan .. 4 Shansi .. 2 Shensi 1 Manchuria - 1 Mongolia .. 1 U.S.A. or? 31 Plans for future-enlarged plans- The Dean, while on furlough this past year, urged the need for additional dormitories and an Administration Building. His eH'orts were successful in 1118.12i.11CI'1iOI11CBOU.l'C1SWCl'CI113dClOl'EZ1llZC perhaps more than ever before the need for, and the scope of work the De- partment of Missionary Training is doing, and hence the need for greater financial assistance. Through a system of rents and fees whereby all students of all Missions, whether or not afnliated in the work of other Departments of the University of Nanking, can enter on the same basis, the Home Boards have pledged themselves to raise the funds necessary to secure adequate buildings and equipmentg the Increased charges to be remitted after the necessary funds have been Secured. In this way, plans for two dormitories and an Administra- tion Building within the next Five years are being made.