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Show the good constitution of those who come to school is tested heavily. Regardless of age students have the same daily schedule. They get ap at 6:00 in the morning and have a study period from 6:30 to 7:20. Breakfast follows; then classes begin at 8:00 and last till 12:00. One hour for rest and dinner; then there are more classes from 1:30 to 4:00. Afterwards physical exercise is required for thirty minutes. Supper comes at dusk, then study hall from 7:00 to 9:00, and at 9:30 they go to bed. And this heavy schedule does not include music, literary society and other extra-curricular activities. Little is done to bring hygiene and public health principles into Chinese schools and doctors as well as modern teachers have a tremendous task before them. It is obvious that the necessity for a change is not great enough, because a Chinese youth who has reached the age for middle school can stand just everything, and until now it has not been obvious how much better results education could obtain were this selected group of the population treated better. The knowledge of the importance, worth, and necessity of an equal distribution of work and play for youth until now has not influenced schools in China. But the workers in the school have besides the difficulty of fighting the old tradition also the difficulty of getting financial help. What was said of the hospital is true of the school too. Students who cannot pay their fees are given financial aid if they bring willingness to learn and ability. This costs yearly great amounts of money. But what would it cost to provide proper food for three hundred and fifteen students, (1940) to build proper bathrooms and modern dormitories, and last but not least, to engage specialists in school hygiene? As the situation is, such plans have to be abandoned. In spite of the inestimably valuable work which is being done already, this renunciation is a heavy one for those who love the youth and realize that the hope of a population is its children, and who know that doing everything possible for the younger generation means to build the future of a country. "Not afraid of bandits, going to the country to-morrow?" I one day asked our Miss Murphy, who had not been seen for a long time in the station because her work is the rural field and who took some warm Chinese garments and a little package of lunch to go to a village badly damaged by the flood. She goes where she is needed most, which is not always easy to decide. The country always needs help, because if there is no flood there will be drought, and if there is no drought there will be insect plagues. Anyhow crops are nearly always so poor that a famine is almost in sight. Should crops be. better one year, then bandits and soldiers have a good time taking away what peasants have harvested. These disasters change but inevitably there is disease. Thus the evangelistic workers go to their fields to organize relief work, to |