In the hope that some assistance might be given in the settlement of their educational difficulties, which had not yet vanished despite all the resolutions passed at the Con-Dr. E. M. Merrins, of Shanghai, contributed a paper on the educational standards, pre-medi. cal and m I of mission medical schools. Attention was mainly drawn to the following points: (1), the organization and equipment of the mission medical school; (2), the standard of its matriculation examination; (3), the standard of its medical curriculum. They could all join in the hope, said Dr. Merrins, that the Chinese Government would soon be in a position to assume the control of national education in all its branches, and bring the whole system into complete accord with Western standards, When that time came, it would be a source of legitimate pride and satisfaction to all concerned if the Government found that in all essential matters little or no alteration could be made for the better in mission medical schools.
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