The Virginia enterprise., 1907-11-29

Jonns college may be said, substan-
TALLY, OF Boone college and Boone
Medical school, Wuchang, likewise of
the Protestant Episcopal mission.
The soochow university Of the
Southern Methodist church, Rev. DR..
u. l.. Anderson, president, is another
institution which would elicit praise of
discriminating educational experts. the
enthusiastic pride of Americans and
the admiration of everybody. From
the college annual, full of the same
sort OF thing that goes into such vol.
umes at home, to the splendidly
equipped building, it is a thorough
going, progressive, effective institu-
ton OF learning. Elsewhere have
spoken of the. imposing North China
Union college, built by the American
board, at Tung Chow, and the Union
college for women, at Peking, and the
Dig Pekfng university of the Methodist
Episcopal church, north, and the
Union Medical college, Peking. All of
these are enterprises great beyond the
imagination of the average American.
who thinks of missions as man
preaching on the corner to a lot of
gaping heather. There are American
educators In China-I need cite only
the veteran, DR.. W. A. P. Martin. of
Pek1ng-Who would be famous men at
nome; association with them is the
best part of the education which these
nlmble-Witted Chinese youth receive.
In Nanking, a union is projected of
the educational work of the Methodist
Episcopal church, north, Disciples of
Christ, Friends and Presbyterians.
north and south. Already the separ-
ate schools make Marking a great
educational center. The International
Institute, Shanghai, headed by DR.. Gil
bert Reid, has nearly 100 students and
is especially ambitious to foster inter.
national good fellowship. But it ia
Impossible even to mention scores of
great schools up and down the length
and breadth of China, whose aim and
spirit are Christian, and the majority
OF whose graduates become members
OF Christian churches and leaven Of
sane progress in the Chinese life.
1t may not be generally known that
the president of the United States
holds office in a missionary society.
AS an alumnus of Harvard university
he is chairman of the advisory COM
mittee of the Harvard mission. which
is one OF the remarkable develop
ments of the missionary spirit in
American institutions of higher learn
ing. This Harvard mission aims to
unite all Harvard men (of whom there
are now no less than 2S) who are in
foreign mission work anywhere, the
sending out of men who will bear the
spirit of their university into the for
eign field, and, more definitely, the
support of E. E. Carter, International
Young Mems Christian association
secretary for India. Harvard. by the
way, maintains a weekly study class
in foreign missions.
Yale Is even more ambitious. pro.
jecting nothing less than "a new Yale
in the far east" China has been
chosen as the most strategic point. In
the center of the progressive, though
long anti-foreign, province of Human.
at Changsha, beginning has been
made in the creation of a Christian
university. One man, John Laurence
Thurston, '98, a member of the fa-
nous yale band," died before the
work was fully started, but his widow.
college graduate, is on the teaching
staff. Rev. Brownell Gage, '9S, an
other member of the yale band" is
one of the professors, and the others
are DR.. Edward Hicks Hume, '97, Rev.
Warren B. Seabury, 1900, and DR.. Or
vile H. schell, 1900. This enterprise
is maintained entirely by Yale alumni
and undergraduates, President Hadley
being member Of the council of con.
troll.
Princeton university has undertak-
en- to man and maintain new Young
Mems Christian association at Picking,
John Wanamaker having given the
money for the building. The famous
big football center, "Bob' Galley, is in
charge of this.
The University of Pennsylvania has
sent one of its football stars, Joe
McCracken, to China, to found a hos
pital and medical work, at Canton;
other graduates will be associated
with him later.
Graduates of several American col.
leges comprise the teaching force of
an enterprise more ambitious than
any of the foregoing. Canton Chris
tian college," which has extensive
grounds, and buildings In course of
erection, on the outskirts of Canton.
1t has an endowment of 100000 with
an energetic committee in New York
raising more. It teaches western sub
jects in English, and Chinese subjects
in Chinese.
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bow1es.)
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