University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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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.

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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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