The Archive · 1900

NATIVE TEACHER

1.—Employ the teacher for six hours day; the student reserving the right of sleeting the time from between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., 80 a8 to provide for special duties or interruptions, 2—The teacher is every day to write new sentences, or a short coll-quial essay ona topic assigned him.

3.—The first two years let the teacher and student walk together daily in the streets and converse on what is been.

SE JON 1.—LEARNING TO TALK CHINESE, hundred lessons on common one-half hour daily, under direct member of the #tation—using the System," xnd following inn u way the outline cause prepared by the Rev. Prof. Brock, C.LM.

Partially learning to read 100 Hymns (explained by a foreigner).

Baller's Primer- two-thirds (not for exam.

Yates's Primer (not for exam.).

Read the Gospels.

Read easy Christian books in the vernacular.

Read the Shanghai Vocabulary (with changes in dialects).

Give attention to tones and aspirates, and especially to the rhythm.

Write 70 principal Radicals.

Wrio names of missionaries in the i (or district).

Write 400 easy characters.

Learn names of capitals, lakes principal mountains in China, with outline map of provinces.

on C. I, M. map the names of the 184 prefectures.

Practical.—Culportage, tea-shop or lay school wi Read each year six standard books in English on China,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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