THE EARLIEST UNION COLLEGE

One of the earliest and most successful of these lighthouses was the Tengchow College founded by Dr. C. W. Mateer.  It was there that young Chinese were most thoroughly instructed in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.  So conspicuous was the success of that institution that when the Government opened a university in Peking, and more recently in Shantung, [Page 286] it was in each case to Tengchow that they had recourse for native teachers of science.  From that school they obtained text-books, and from the same place they secured (in Dr. Hayes) a president for the first provincial university organised in China.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL UNIVERSITY IN PEKING

The missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church have of late taken up the cause of education and carried it forward with great vigour.  Not to speak of high schools for both sexes in Fukien, they have a flourishing college in Shanghai, and a university in the imperial capital under the presidency of H. H. Lowry.  Destroyed by the Boxers in 1900, that institution has now risen phoenix-like from its ashes with every prospect of a more brilliant future than its most sanguine friends ever ventured to anticipate.

AMERICAN BOARD COLLEGE AT TUNGCHOW

A fine college of the American Board at Tungchow, near the capital, met the same fate and rose again with similar expansion.  Dr. Sheffield, its president, has made valuable contributions to the list of educational text-books.

These great schools, together with the Medical College of the London Mission, above referred to, and a high school of the United States Presbyterians, have formed a system of coeoperation which greatly augments the efficiency of each.  Of this educational union the chief cornerstone is the Medical College.

A similar cooeperative union between the English [Page 287] Baptists and American Presbyterians is doing a great work at Weihien, in Shantung.  I speak of these because of that most notable feature—­union international and interdenominational.  Space would fail to enumerate a tithe of the flourishing schools that are aiding in the educational movement; but St. John’s College, at Shanghai (U.  S. Episcopal), though already mentioned, claims further notice because, as we now learn, it has been given by the Chinese Government the status of a university.

PREPARATION OF TEXT-BOOKS