Your correspondent recently had occasion to visit Tsinanfu, and there had the great pleasure of, seeing something of the Shantung Christian University which has been established in that city. The journey by rail from Pukou on the Tientsin-Pukou line was agreeably disappointing to one who had heard so much of the troubles and trials incident upon a trip on a Chinese railway. In the first place the train nicely heated and at, the same time decently and will-ventilated. On the dining car excellent fare was provided, and the boys both here and on the other cars were most courteous and obliging. The sleep: ing accommodation also was very good. Above all there was no overcrowding and no joy-riding" im stations of soldiers, while the station platforms were kept clear of all but bond fide travellers. Tickets were checked in a businesslike manner and altogether one got the impression that here was a well conducted enterprise.
A Rerresmixe Cry, Amiving at the large and wel! built station at Tsinaniu, one noted the wide and well-repr streets that comprise the foreign settlement and its vicinity. It is a city that has grown considerably of late years and there is an air of prosperity about the place that is decidedly refreshing after the ex. perience of some of the native cities in Central China.
The university itself is a "place well worth a visit. It occupies a fine site in one of the suburbs, and the buildings cover a large area. There is an arts school, divinity school and medical school. To the outsider perhaps the latter is the most interesting because of the excellence of its appointments. One is impressed by the various tories and teaching apphanoes, and cannot but feel that hero the youth of China have opportunities of gaining a know. ledge of medicine that until fairly recently at any rate, were outside the chances of many medica! students in western lands, A fine up-to-date hospital! close at hand affords every opportunity for the clinical work of the students. The medical cour: takes altogether seven years. two of which are really pre-medical and are ven up to such studies as chemistry, physics and biology. The chemical and physical departments each have a large building allotted to them, and the laboratories and lecture rooms would compare favourably with many stitutions for higher education in the west.
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