Only failure, and disappointment ould follow such a course. In con trast wore the Mission fe well-disciplined, progress with that spirit of assuredness in both teachers and pupils that intilled that superior complex that all students were 80 ambitious to obtain The opposite would rem to have obtained with the student mass, and their disappeirtment use birth to] that condit!en of mind eatter inferiae complex, the most disastrous of mental diseases. How else explain the non-constructive spirit and at tude of the student body for the st year or tivo, or that unprovoked attack upon the institutions that emancipated them from the slavery of a non-proiduetive routine. As ofs some dreaded pestilence sweeps from the coust to the Tibetain plateau, year ago some infectious germ affecting students Chengtu exempt, and all who had connexion with Christain institutions had som anxious tines. most disorders this mental affection lost much of ite virulence during the saummer, Through ter the relations between fo) igners and Chinese have been very satisfactory. The Union University' has had the most successful year of its history, Thera} have been no spee'al annoyances, and the students have worked faithfully, Their annual sports passed off without a hitch, The hospitals are full. The strike fever that effected the nurses last spring did not reappear,
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