University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

Page 79 text:

mCU'? 'Y AND S'l'UD IEN'l' BODY, 1923-1924

Page 78 text:

76 EDUCATION .ln September 1923 the college opened work on its new campus Of forty acres, and seven of the proposed fourteen buildings. are already completed. At present, all the instruction, except in the Chines0 department, is given in English. The Nanking Theological Seminary is a union school of about twenty years standing. It is situated on a beautiful campus, and is very well equipped. The student body now numbers about 1125 The Episcopal Church also has a Theological school here with about 30 students. The Bible Training School for women has an enrollment of about 80, and its purpose is to fit the Chinese women for religious work. These young women are from thirteen provinces, and seven Mission Boards. As we look over this list of schools with their new education we see certain new tendencies in Chinese education.. We note that there is il change in regard to thc character of education, and to the character of the educated man. The old educatioirlaid the whole stress on training the mind, and ruled that the scholar must not turn his hand to do anything useful. The long finger nails of the old Chinese scholar were both a proof of the fact- that he did not use his hands, and a' sign of the way manual labor was regarded. Today vocational and technical training occupies il large place. In fact, the reason for the Junior Middle school was to make it possible to give vocational training to those who did not expect t0 take higher education The ideal all the way through,-no matter how poorly it has been carried out.- is to fit the pupil for work,--truly this is a new thing in China, and a much needed one, Another tendency is the stress that is being laid on athletics and physical exercise in the schools. Chinese boys are beginning to play basket ball, tennis, association foot ball, and the like. School leagues are springing up, and the competition grows keener. This, too, is the sign of a new and more healthy day. V Two other modern tendencies are seen in the stress laid on the Study of English and the education of women. English has Come to be it business necessity in many cities, and those having a speaking knowledge can readily find positions. Besides, much of the knowledge of the world is locked up in English, and is only fltfflillable through a leading knowl- edge. The student and the busi116SS 111311 alike Want to study English. CCo1zcluded on page 1383

Page 80 text:

t Q - OUHYEAR AT 5 A ' if 5 ',,5i.J.'.:-I 1 wi i n ? A J MWA lil ? LANGU E SCHO OL 5 llgfnf Ng Ki el K aim . s.., '1a- M.,- October second. This yea1 s members of the Language School gathered for the first time- about a hundred strong Happy congratulatory words were spoken by President Bowen of Nanking Universityh-also a serious, sobering Warning against wearing the mask of imperialistie arrogance, so naturally assumed by all Anglo-Saxon people. Then Chia Sain Sen, the head Chinese teacher, addressed us with efferveseent sparkling words OfWClC0lI1G. Our Dean, Miss Leyda, translated for the benefit of those wholly uninitiatcd in that sibilant sound-the Chinese language: and our laugh echoed that of t-he second year students. H. f Having become acquainted with our three heads, we students were ealled on to arise in turn, and enuneiate name, denomination, preparatory W0rk, and, most distinctly of all. particular fad. The world is so full of a number of things --tennis and perambulators, bloody wars and-I wish l were able to enumerate all the fads mentioned that morningg just to startle that possible reader who still worries over the narrow inter-psig of the missionary. . l think, as we stood to be dismissed. we all felt to some degree the responsibility of the new work upon which we were entering, and some- thing of the sat-isfaf-tion and the eomradeship that the coming year would bring us. October sixth. Three weeks after we had begun the stflfllllous task of acquiring new Words, the powers decided to give us a holiday. The second year students C779