It was the privilege of your correspondent afew days ago, to attend the examinations of the Tangchow Cullege of the American Board Mission. The students were examined in the studies of the first half-year, the term beginning the first week in September. The studies passed in review were, the Chinese classics, geography. physiology, chemistry, church and universal_hist-ry, and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Some interesting experitnents were given by the stud-nts in chemistry. The wonderful powers of the Chinese memory were well tested, ut simply in memoriter rope iti n, but in giving in the student's own language the important events, dates, and names of different periods, Biblical, Church, and universal With very few exceptions, the students acquitted themselves with credit, and it is not too much to say that great pains have been taken to do careful and thorough work, to stimulate the students to yo to the bottom of things and learn the reasons therefore to understand the principle, and not merely follow the rale." Such' institutions as this are destined to become gre it factors in preparing fora better China in the days to come.
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