University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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78 ll THE LINGUIST . OUR ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE CURRICULUM Some of our friends in the Homeland have asked in their letters what we can find to do outside school hours. The difficulty is to find enough time for the things to be done. In a city of so many different types of schools as is Nanking, no lack of work exists for those who are willing to help. Calls are continually coming in from some school. institutional church or other, whose staff is underxnanned to request the Language School students to assist in some way or to teach English. And the Language school students have responded gen- erously. A complete list of the institutions assisted need not be given here. But the following activities gives an idea of the type of work done. Several of our young women have given one or more hours per week to teaching at the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. XV. C. A., the Methodist Girls' School, The Quakerage and several similar in atitu- tions. Three of our young women have been teaching English to the wife of the Provincial Military Governor. Several of our students have taught at the University of Nankingg ten have assisted in the Middle School of the National Southeastern University. A number of Bible and Sunday School classes have been organized and instructed by our students. A very commendable piece of work in the form of a much needed dispensary has been instituted under the auspices of the Adult Bible class. Semi-weekly clinics are held with Dr. C. I-I. Voss in charge, assisted by Dr. R. Peterson and Dr. WVm. Ankency and two graduate nurses the Misses Dunlap and Gerhling. Other members of the class conduct evening classes and church services for the same group of persons who are treated in the clinic. A regular schedule has been made outg certain evenings of the week are given over to instructing the young people and other evenings to evangelistic meetings and preaching services. Rev. L. E. Blackman has charge of the Evangelistic work and is ably assisted by a native preacher Rev. Wang, who also conducts classes for the young people in the afternoons. Mr. Earl Otto has charge of the educational work. SIGHT SEEING Let us not leave the impression, that we do nothing but work, teach and study. We are far too human and fun-loving for that. The old saw, All work and 'l' 'l' if is just as true in China as elswhere. Many 'interesting places exist about Nanking and we have availed ourselves of the opportunity to see some of them. Saturday has been the usual day for these hikes and sight seeing. Almost every Saturday a party has made a hike or trip. Space does not permit me to describe them all. The brief accounts of a few will afford a glimpse of the year's sightseeing. MING TOMBS , On Chinese Independence day, October Io, a group of hikers left Meigs Hall for Purple Mountain, Ming tombs and Spirit valley. The young women live in Meigs I-Iallg they are the life of any party such