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are 754 students, mostly young men. There
are a few young women in the normal de-
partment being trained for teachers. About
300 students, from distant parts of the
country are boarders, the remainder being
day scholars from within six or seven miles
of the college. Two-thirds of the students
are of Christian parentage, and nearly all
OF them native Burmese.
The college is not charitable institution.
All the students pay for both board and
tuition with the exception Of few who are
working their way through. The standard
of education is not as high as that OF the
average American college, but the curric-
ulum takes the student up to the work
accomplished in the sophomore year of our
institutions. Graduates who desire degrees
are required to study two years longer, but
are eligible for entrance examinations to
the Calcutta University. English Is used
throughout. All recitations and examina-
tions are held in English except in the pre-
paratory department, where it is found
necessary to use the native language to ex-
plain the English. training school has re-
Gently been added to the other depart
ments.
Attendance upon Sunday schools, preach
ing services and Bible instruction is COM
pulsory, regardless of the religious faith OF
the students, and it is found that even this
rule does not deter Buddhists, Mohamme-
dams and members of other sects from
availiRg themselves of the privileges Of
fered. There is a great demand for the
offices, manufacturing concerns and other
institutions. They are also In demand for
teachers in the public schools. DR.. Cush-
ing. the president, could not tell me how
many go into the ministry, because no rec
ord of the graduates is kept
The government gives the school a sub
sidy of $4,000 rupees year on the condi-
ton that certain branches are taught, and
that sum pays about half the salaries of the
teachers. The tuition fees amount to about
1900 rupees, and $500 rupees are received
annually from the missionary society in
New York.
Rev. j. M. Gushing of Massachusetts, presi-
dent; L. E. Hicks of Ohio, vice president;
w. st. John of Indiana, J. F. Smith of Con-
necticut, A. c. Rice of Iowa, E. B. Roach
and H. H. Tilbe of Alton, Ill.
Other Missions.
The Presbyterians have no missions in
Burma, but there are several organiza-
lions Of the Scotch and English branches
of that sect, and the chaplain Of the Brit
ish garrison is Presbyterian.
The Established Church of England has
several missionary stations, schools and
hospitals.
1870, when Bishop James L. Thorburn, then
presiding elder OF Calcutta district, visited
Rangoon, organized a society, purchased a
piece Of land and erected a humble little
structure. 1t is now used as q school,
while worship is conducted in a more COM
modious and appropriate building. At the
last conference twelve American mission
aries and ffty-four native pastors reported
40 members and 279 probationers. Last
year eighty-one adults and forty-two chill
dren were baptized, There were nineteen
Sunday schools, with 752 scholars, and
eighty day schools, with S46 scholars. The
presiding elder Is Rev. Frederick B. Price.
The other Americans in Rangoon are Rev.
A. T. Leonard Mr.. Lichtenberg, B. F. Jones
and C. H. Riggs.
Perhaps the most important and promis-
Ing Of the Methodist institutions is girls