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Show Paotingfu GENERAL REFORT 51 hundreds left their homes and went to distant places to beg, Scores of daughters were sold that hunger might be appeased. A part of the funds that we were able to secure, amounting to about $1500.00 gold, has been put into an Industrial Institute that has for its purpose the training of women in profitable home handicrafts that they can use and can teach to their neighbors. The hope is to do something towards disseminating a training that will help the country people to help themselves in times of crop failure. EDUCATIONAL WORK °w i " g t o i n t e r r » P t i o n s ™de in the work of our Boys' Boarding School by the revolution, no class was graduated in 1912. The class of eight that will graduate this year will be extraordinarily well prepared for entering at Tungchou. The work in this school has been faithfully and efficiently carried on, mostly by the principal Mr. Su Wen Jui and by Mr. Jen Ch'ang Nien, both of whom are Tungchou College graduates. Mr. Teng Chi Yen has continued his excellent work in Chinese classical literature, and Mrs. King, with a little assistance from Mrs. Price and Mrs. Gait, has given the school a standing in English above that of any other like school in the mission. Applications for entrance to the school have been quite the common thing all the year, but especially at the opening of the spring semester. We received all that we could make room for, but had to turn a number away. This was in spite of the fact that we offered no scholarship aid to any new applicants. The enrollment this year has reached 60 as against the previous high watermark of 4 2. Already new applications are in hand for next autumn. Probably we can keep the number down by raising the fees to what would have been considered quite prohibitory two years ago. Besides this school we have at the central station a day school with ah attendance that has varied from 8 to 18. In our country field are two other schools, one of which has a boarding department. Both of these have more than doubled attendance during the year. One of these, taught by a Tungchou College graduate, has had an interesting experience. A village government school has joined forces with it, the new patrons submitting to our rules and furnishing one teacher to assist our Mr. |
