medical department, because the East China Medical Association (dean,
Doctor Shields) works in connection with the University. Nanking will
always be a political, naval, military, scientific and cultured center,
and therefore the university will have a great influence in teaching
the coming leaders of the New China.
There is nothing narrow-minded about the college, for it teaches
the Chinese language, literature and philosophy. The extensive
grounds cover in the aggregate forty-three acres. There are several
dormitories, chapels, residences for staff, and a Y. M. C. A. The
best building is the large science hall. The university, surely run
economically, needs larger funds for an endowment from America, because
it has not the heart to turn away many promising but poor students who
must be accommodated practically free. Thirty dollars boards a worthy
student for a year, and the college is always glad to hear from those
who will support scholarships, increase the buildings and equipment,
or add to the library and endowment. Athletes of the university are
making their mark, and may extend their triumphs to the Olympic games.
Football and track athletics are popular. There is a library, museum,
students’ magazine, press, and of course a debating society. The
college band, the largest in China, numbers seventy pieces. The boys
showed their mettle in benevolent activities when they contributed
five hundred dollars for the famine and flood victims, and besides
volunteered for work in the stricken districts of Nganhwei province.
Model farm colonies in the distressed sections have been undertaken
by the university. The university now makes a special appeal for a
larger library and reading room building, or institute, to throw open
to the great metropolis, and in Chinese fashion, they propose to have
a self-supporting tea-room which will be a college club and city
institute; a people’s institute in other words. This would be a very
popular move in a city which politically will remain either as the
first or second city in China. The Chinese themselves prefer it for the
capital; the foreigners in North China are using their influence to
have Peking retained as the national capital. While hot Nanking is not
so healthy as Peking, the writer believes that the foreigners should
bow to the wish of the Chinese, and have Nanking named as capital. The
higher classes of Chinese are timid as yet of the religious hall, but
they are enthusiastic attendants at lecture halls, libraries and clubs.
Nanking University intelligently proposes to miss no opportunity.
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