Two mootings of more than usual interest have been held this year at Kuling to arrange for carrying on school for boys and girls at Kuling. Five years ago the Ohina Inland Mission erected some school buildings on the hills with the intention of using them for a preparatory school, Everything necessary for the. conduct of the schoo! was ready when circumstances led the mission to modify their plans. Bor years the buildings have been empty, except for the presence of the missionary and his wife who have been in charge, but now, largely due to the energy of Mr. Meigs, the principal of the Christian College at Nanking, a number of guarantors have joined together to rent the buildings from the: China Inland Mission and carry on a school for the. children of foreigners living in the Yangtze Valley and other parts of China, A prospectus will shortly be published, some extracts from which will be of interest to many of your readers who were not present at the meetings held at Kuling.
The founders of the school are the shareholders who have subscribed a guarantee fund to enable the school to be opened, Their children have the first claim to ad-pittance into the school and a reduction is allowed on their-school fees, but the shareholders obtain no.other financial profit from the school.
The school, which is for both boys and girls, endeavours to provide a good high school education. Besides the ordinary branches of an English education such subjects will be taught as are required for the entrance or preliminary College exammations in England and America. The school being essential; christian foundation, the moral and spiritual. interests of the children are considered of the highest importance, and children will not be received into nor retained in the school if it is thought that their influence will seriously interfere with thi
on or about the first of April and continues The School Year.—The sel vol year begins until the middle of December, with a short vacation of @ fortnight in August, and other occasional holidays arranged by the headmaster.
Departments.—The school includes Kindergarten, Elementary, and Secondary Departments for both boys and girls.
(1) Kindergarten,—a Kindergarten for by children under seven during the months of June, July, and yas of age is held August,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.