University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, 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

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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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Qin LINeU1s'r 105 The College of Agriculture and Forestry, in addition t0,0H6IYlllg llfnfltical agricultural courses, maintains an experiment station and is 'lffing work of value in the culture of cotton and in serieulture., The College has received official recognition and support from the- National Department of Agriculture and Commerce, and from the governors of SBVGII provinces. Last year S675,000 QGoldJ was allotted to the Depart- 'nent by the United States Government from surplus funds of The American Committee for China Famine Fund after the Chinese famine of l92l. This money is to be used over a period of ten years in working out and applying measures of famine prevention. Experts are now at work marking surveys of rural conditions, educating farmers in improved methods of production, and fostering the planting of trees on banks of rivers to Prevent future floods. ' ' Q, V 1 'lbiWh.-.. m'mf-e-- . ' 1 X . . .' JJ' . 'I , 'VW 'Y ' .,-vii i ' 1 K i, .V I ' m 'I' 'M 'mm ,t s nuns , ' -,'-N - 'I , . ,,' f-- -- Sa , J ' ' '54-3 'f.- - . ,.l Rf t5Eg5iffit:Z 3ff'.1 'ffE1yqrm7:ssm-wig . - v M g f- -as ' 4p,,,,,5:.'mfQ ,.Qw,',5 1 - -fs- :.'s.z - tZ+'rHu.s2:a.,v ' ' Part of the University of Nanking The Department of Missionary Training, commonly known as the lfibnguage School, became a part of the University in 1912. It had been begun in Shanghai the year before by members of twenty-seven soeietics 'luring the period of missionary inactivity owing to the Chinese Revolu- tl0n. Soon after the school had begun, Rev. CIIHIICS S- Keen, who was to be the Dean, went to America to spend twoyears in studying the bGSt methods of teaching language. Largely as a result of Dean Keenfs labours, Over half a hundred Chinese teachers have been frfrined to I-'CWC H W01'liiHg knowledge of Chinese through systems of instrUCtl0U 9fPPI'0Ved by the best educators. Students are first taught to heal' tlln HOW H0l1nClS correctly, 'l0Xt to speak the sounds, then to recognize the written Symbols, and finally to write the characters which have already b0COn10 fflnliliar to the UY0. After each day's new words have bPCn given Owlly and then clinched by the use of phonetic symbols, native teachers, Whfl fl'lW21yS Speak in Chinese, explain the words, use them in varied connections, and before the day of class drill and private teacher sessions is finished, they SUCCGOLI in