University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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THE EW DEA Q Mr. S. J . Mills, the Dean Elect of the Language School, was bgrn in Chine and with the exception of the years spent in Europe and Ameriga while in High School and College, has lived and worked in China. all his life. As an educator he spent eight years es teacher of Pedagogy and 1zSychology and was later connected with the work of The Chinese Student lolunteer Movement During the last three years Mr. Mills has been Superintendent of the Fn Dong Community Church of Nanking which is achieving remarkable success in becoming an indigenous Chinese Institution. He is certainly wcll qualified to direct the work of the Language School because of his technical training and his fnlrnilifirit-y with the Chinese, 4 103 D

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102 THE YEAR Then again there are a good many Chinese in Nanking in the various schools Whose English is sufficiently good to attend Bible classes taught in English, which gives us another opportunity of helping to justify our existence. The demands for all these and other kinds of work have not been infrequent at the Language school which acts in some measure as a recruiting station for those who have a job a-begging. We learn much from these first opportunities of service in the land wc have come to serve, and are glad to feel that we can render some small service to the city that gave us such a warm welcome and treated us so kindly during our first year in China.

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THE U IVERSITY OF NANKING , 'DUCATIONAL work carried on since 1888 by various missions in ' iNanking formedvt-he nucleus from which grew the University of Nanking. In 1910 was effected a merger of higher schools conducted by the Christian, Northern Presbyterian, and Northern Methodist Missions. At the present time the Northern Baptist and Southern Presbyterian Missions are also co-operating members of the University. . The year following its establishment, the University of Nanking was granted a charter by Regents of the University of the State of New York. 'But although the scholastic standard must be maintained according to Ameriican regulations, and while graduates of this institution receive a diploma from the Regents of the University of New York, the fact that the Uhiversity is a school in China for the Chinese has not been overlooked. The principal divisions outlined by the Chinese National Board of Education for elementary and secondary schools have been followed, so that the grading of students corresponds to that in other schools of thc land. i Thus, a student entering the Model School, which comprises the .LOWGIl and Higher Primary Schools, may pass into the Middle School, through the Junior College. and to the College of Arts and Science, all a part of the University. Besides the departments mentioned, there are the College of Agriculture and Forestry, the School of Education, in connection with which the Model School was originally started, the University Hospital, which has the reputzition of offering the best 11ll1'SC,S training course in China, and the Department of Missionary Training. lilnlike most of the colleges and universities in China all the classes in the Selnior College are conducted in .English and as a result the graduates have ino difficulty in being accepted for graduate work in American Universities. Religious Education is apart of the required work of the University and about one hundred students made definite Christian decisions last. year. i f 104 J