The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25
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Advics ard Bcoks Frs. Ra,ss esasonas'e. ulxhss,
References. os Snyices.
WATSON E. COLEMAN, Pates LAWYER.
eI2 F St, WASHINGTON, ID. c.

Chinese college graduates. There are
evening classes for boys and men.
IypeWriting S taught n S~tenogra-
phic secretaries are made.
The Shanghai Association.
This Shanghai Association is sup
ported by the natives: and his is true
OF nearly all the Y. NJ. c. As in the
empire. There is a large association
in Picking, another III Tientsin and
others in Canton, Suchow, Eangchow,
Hankowr and elsewhere. There are
over seventy-fve connected with the
colleges and ether schools Of China,
and branches are starting in all of the
q cat business centers.
The merchants and literati are in
terested in the Y. M c.. A. movement.
There are 500 business men and 5choI-
ars of note who belong to the Sham
ghai institution, and each of these
pays $50 a year toward its support
This gives it an income from that
source alone Of $4,000 per annum,
and the regular tuition fees bring in
considerable The awakening of China
is creating a great demand for Chi
nese who can speak and write Eng
Ssh and the boys know that they can
get five times as much salary if they
are so equipped. This fact is crowd
ing the day schools of the association
with pupils who wish to learn Eng
lish, and the night classes are full OF
such men.
hin and the Olympic James.
The athletic feature also forms a
great drawing card. When the \. NJ.
c. A. came to China, ten years ago.,
the natives had no interest in ath-
letics. The old Chinese scholar prided
himself upon his green goggles, his
long finger nails, his a~ttenuated form
and his hollow chest. With the bring
ing OF athletics into the public schools
and the organizations OF military drill
everywhere, physical exercise has be-
come popular, and the secretaries or
the associations have now no trouble
in filing their gymnasiuIns. They
organized field days at the different
c]enters, and eight or ten thousand
come to such places as Tientsln 20
take part in the annual meets. Ihere
are 5000 students in the modern
schools of Tientsin, and the interest
IN such matters there is so great that
an address was recently delivered .
the students of the government
schools on the subject, 'Whel Hlt
China Win the Olympic Games o. In
deed. it is safe to say that before
many years both the Chinese and
the Japanese will be found in all
international athletic competitions,
and it Will not be surprising if an
Asiatic some day wins the marathon.
[ lind a trained physical director
here in charge Of the Shanghai gym
nasium. He Will start a national
training school for physical directors.
and native Chinese SO trained VIII go
out from here to hold professorships,
not only in other Y. NJ. &. As, but
in the new schools and colleges. which
the government is everywhere start
ing.
College- bred Secretar cs.
Tell me something ABOUT the for
eigners who are working here IN the
Y. NJ. G. A." said [.
We have thirty-tWo Americans,
Canadian and English secretaries in
China and Korea, all Of whom are
working under the auspices OF our IN
ternational committee. TheSA men are
university trained; they represent sucn
colleges as Oxford and Cambridge,
England, and Yale, Princeton, Cornell
and McGiIl, in America. We have also
graduates of our western institutions,
and several from our theological semi
naries. The Tientsin Association was
started eight years ago by Robert Cal
ley, the great Princeton center rush.
and he has been reinforced by Robert
son. who was formerly professor OF
Mechanical engineering in Purdue, and
bv Cole, who was a fellow in McGli.
The secretaries are all men OF i
class.
Patron;zed by The Officials.
am SURPRISED at the high Chinese
officials who ere interested in the Y.
NJ. c.. A. movement. Yuan Shin kaI,
the great general and statesman, has
subscribed a great deal to the asso-
citation at Tientsin and Picking. Tong
Shao VI has given a great deal, as
has also WI Ting-fang. the former
ambassador to washington. Cheh
Nun Yen is A memb of the Shan
Cha; association, and Tong Kai San.
one of the of the opium
commission, belongs to the national