of the Eduentional Association of China wog Tuesday evening a recognition meetin, held at the McTyeire Home, Thibet Road, and such a meeting was very necessary for men and women engaged in educational work among the Chinese were present from nearly all parts of China; men and women who have grown grey in the service of this country have come to this Convention to add their wisdom and experience to the energy and enthusiasm of the younger workers; all that the Chinese may have the best educationally that they are able to accept.
Any who are doubtful as to the ability of the Chinese to progress should have been present at the opening meeting of the conference. With such a power impelling them onward as the sum of the educational forces represented at this convention, it would seem impossible that the Chinese should not progress, After refreshments and an hour's informal "recognitions," the Rev. J. C. Ferguson called the meeting to order and stated that representatives of the various types of education would now be called upon to tell who they were, where they were from, what they were doing educationally, and, in short, all they could tell about themselves that would be of interest to the convention,—speeches not to exceed one minute.
It was hardly necessary for Mr. Ferguson to state that he is now in charge of the Nanyang College at Sicawei_and was formerly in charge of Nanking University. The members then gave the following accounts of their work; much of this was quite necessary, since many of the names are so well known to everybody in China:—Dr. Mateer, of Tengchiou College, Shantung.
Dr. ¥. J. Allen, formerly of the Anglo-Chinese College, Shanghai, and now associated with Mr. Timothy Richard, in the editorial work of the Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge.
Mr. George Fryer spoke for his father, Dr. Fryer, who will unfortunately arrive in Shanghai just too late for the convention.
Dr. Sheffield, of T'ungchou, near Peking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.