University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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STUDENT BODY 1922-1923 11-'OR NAMES SEE PAGE 122 r-'FJ

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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

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FROM Tl-IE EAST AND FROM THE WEST 67 FROM THE EAST AND FROM THE WEST. , THE SEA VOYAGE. - ' S soonlas the tender had left Tilbury, -..: ,gg,,g.:,g and the faces of those who had come ,.'.g7:- 'fff?li ' down to see us off were no longer 'A' 'W distinguishable, I felt then that the great adventure had begun. There was not a soul on boardl knew,-and at that time the only acquaintance I had was my bag- gage, which I had seen a great deal of for many weeks before- hand. It was some hours before we finally started and we sailed down the dear old Thames, with the lights along the banks. I watched until it was time to turn in. The next morning we were out in' the open sea, with no vestige of land in sight. l didn't like that feeling very much at first, but soonlgot used to it. We all seemed to be on the lookout for the merest suggestion of land. It was lovely to see the white cliffs of the Isle of Vtfight during the first morning. We missed several places of interest during the nights,-Gibraltar for instance, and we only saw Malta in the dim distance. People became very excited when the north coast of Africa came into view, with its bold cliffs and stretches of sand. Everyone collected at the front of the ship as we neared Port Said. My first impressions of the Orient were not very favorable. VVe had hardly anchored before the ship was surrounded by little boats filled with dark skinnell,turbanned men, in long robes, making a real Babel of noise. They scrambled up the stairs,-l wondered half of them were not pushed into the water in the general confusion. And ina surprisingly short time the deck was converted into an Oriental market. They are people who simply refuse to take No for an answer and seem to have the idea that our great object in life is to possess ourselves of numberless strings of beads and feathered fans, and to feed on Turkish delight. It was no use trying to escape to a quiet corner of the deck. We were pursued everywhere with people dangling beads and fans in our faces. It was even worse on shore and I was quite relieved when we put off again and entered the Suez Canal. It makes me glad to think Ihave been through that wonderful achievement of man's skill. It certainly is not much to look at. But to see large vessels passing each other in what seemed just a narrow river but with sufficient depth at the very edges for a vessel to tie up, was a wonderful experience. That night was the beginning of the hot weather and though it was November, we could hardly breathe, the heat was so oppressive. Colombo made up for the deficiencies of Port Said. The ap- proach to it is so beautiful. We could see church towers and fine buildings surrounded by tropical trees. That evening we Went ashore. And it was just like being in fairyland-passing the bungalows with their colored lights on the verandas and the scent from tropical