Association has become inity centre of y of Shanghai, Its building is used constantly by various organizations, educational, industrial, social, benevolent and musical. A list of the organizations using the Association would be very much a list of all the organizations of this character in Shanghai which do not have their own quarters. The Association is increasingly finding itself useful in serving other organizations. It is realized that there are many things to be done in this city that do not lie within the field of the Young Men's Christian Association. Many types of organization are required to do all the Club pneumatic tyred ricsha had yet to come. work, and to serve all the interests of a' cosmopolitan community and many of these organizations have had their beginning in the Asso: ciation building.
Many types of work that have been first pioneered by the Association have been reproduced by others in many parts of the city. The Association was a pioneer in evening education, commercial education, library and reading rooms, physical education, religious meetings for men, special Bible study for men and boys, meetings for social and moral reform, social service, poor boys' schools, socials, recreational features for men and boys, playgrounds, evening lectures, educational lectures, science lectures, lectures. on government. The Association had the first club building for Chinese men, the first modern gymnasium, the first Bible School, the first thoroughly modern barber shop, the first specialized equipment. for boys. Many of these activities have now been taken up by other organizations and successful new methods have been developed. The Association is fortunate in having come to Shanghai early enough to serve the community in these various ways, yet it would seem that it was only beginning its career of usefulness to the community, and that the next years would make possible a service such as has never before been conceived, provided the organization continues faithful to its foundation purposes,
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