University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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l.ANGLF.fXGIC SCHOOL l'l1e l,ul1guuge School .'XllIIlilliSll'1lliVC Stufnfz Left to Right Miss l,cyc,l:1. Miss Smith. Chia Sain Sen, Dcnn Keen,

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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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THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL 65 In addition to the students regularly registered for language study in residence, there is now a large body of students taking the Advanced work by correspondence, while assisting in regular mis- sionary work at their various stations. This fall shows fifty registered as beginning their second year's study, and many more than this are registered forthe work of the third, fourth and hfth years. With the Home Universities recognizing the work of language students, and with better facilities for supervising this work, the Department should, indeed, be a growing one. Mission or other affiliations of the student body- Students have come to this Department from thirty-four Missions or Union Colleges, as well as independently registered either for Mission work or business preparation, over 7192, however, coming as new missionaries under eight Boards. Presbyterian 1914 Presbyterian, South 50 Baptist, North 90 Baptist, South 13 Methodist Episcopal 177 Methodist Episcopal, South ll Christian fDisciplesj 67 Episcopal tAmerican Church 'D 41 Reformed Church of the U.S.A. 30 Y. W. C. A. U 28 Y. M. C. A. 27 United Evangelical 27 Evangelical Association 1 16 University of Nanking 14 American Advent Mission 12 Seventh Day Advent 50 Christian, Reformed 8 ,Lutheran Synod 8 Yale in China 8 Church Missionary Society 7 Congregational 8 Friends 6 Hunan Bible Institute 5 Women's Union .5 Norwegian 3 Ginling College 3 Pentecostal 2 W'esleyan, Methodist 3 Christian Endeavor 2 Church of God 3 Finnish 2 - Free Methodist 2 Hanchow College 2 Canadian Church Missionary Society 1 Independent Z7 Total ' .. . 870