Friends of the Rev. D. W. Nichols will be pained to learn of a serious accident to his youngest child, a little boy, who fell off a chair last Saturday through a window-ne, cutting his face very badly. Dr.
was ab once sent for and gave the little fellow proper attention, 12th December.
NANKING UNIVERSITY, On Friday last the members of the foreign community were invited to inspect the new buildings of the Nanking University, just completed, These are two large two. storied structures, most comfortably fitted up, the one for a dormitory, the other for
dormitory is called after the donor Collins the use of the preparatory school, The Hall," is 110 feet long by 33 feet wide, and contains some thirty odd sleeping rooms, a large dining hall, kitchen, bath-house and every appointment necessary for the comfort of the students. The other building is 68 feet long by 50 feet wide and contains six recitation rooms and a large chapel. These new halls together with those already erected make a very imposing appearance and are well set off by the large campus surrounding them, which measures some seven and a half acres in extent. The whole Jant, including apparatus, cost $20,000U.S, he principal building, known as " Fowler Biblical School" was completed two years age. It has three stories and a basement and is furnished with a clock-tower which is visible at a considerable distance across the city. Ibis proposed before long to supply this with an illuminated clock which will let these slow-zoing people know the time day. This building was the gift of Mrs. Adeline Smith of Chicago, the same lady who established the hospital and the girls' school in connection with the Methodist: Mission in this city. The most beautiful structure on the grounds is the "Sleeper Memorial Chapel," built some three years muy of her father.
Mrs. Sleeper Davis of Boston, in
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