ssuus, speaking un the Brst aph iclaung to the.ocation zenuvls, said ne was willing to taught. He ested: ce ask if the committee recouseaded that their school in Nank: ug should teach in Chinese, and if therefore it was a second grade schoo, Would the committee allow another school, either English or Chinese, which would be a second grade school Dr. Balme, anticipating the report of the curriculum committee, said the question of two standard scho.is had veen discussed, and they were proposing that such schools should be recognized. There should be first, the approved schools of the Association, called "A" cli which would give the M. D. degree, and whose entrance requirements and curriculum would be of a higher grade; secondly, the class of schools which were spoken of as recognized schools or "B" class, which would also have definite requirements as to curriculum and length of course, but of a somewhat lower grade than A" class.
Dr. U 'k asked if the Conference had arrived at. the position when they were seriously discussing what was to take place in the existing schools, He was speaking as coming from Peking, and he considered they had something more than geographical situation to consider. They had to remember th: Peking was the capital of China. If they, & Conference, gave expression to the opinion that that wa the place to teach English they were practically stating that the first-class education should be in English. That was a very serious question, because they had students from all parts of China If they decided that education in Peking was not to be taught in Chinese, they would be, in effect, stating that the best thing for China was an education in English, whereas he understood from the drift of the previous discussion that the Conference was agreed that there was a distinct place for each. He trusted they would not do anything which would prevent this, Dr. Eubank, after stating the seriousness of the question, asked if the committee were recommending two schools for each of the centres named. It meant, if that was the case, that they were recommending ten schools, and granting that one was a Government school, it still nine, A few years ago the Conference recommended five, then it rose to eight, and'now the number had jumped to nine.
Dr. Maxwell said' the committee had not recommended' nine schools.
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Dr. Baime asked if it-was, the nuud of the Conference that it would be "ideal" to have Chinese and English teaching in each ut the five centres, for he very much doubted if it would be in Northern mina, where che number of Eng-Hish-speaking Chinese was so few. ssngusa in Nurta Cuina, Dr, angrain.—tt seems w me that scheme will give a deal of trouble in certain places. in Yekaug, and Northern Cina, for instance, ube teuciing of Luglich is far behind that in Cena, China. We have a school which was established with the idea ut teaching in Chinese, and now to have the Associ.ton say that we should teach in Singlish is a great revolution, and for one I cannot see but that it is a great mistake, because it will al most close our schools for a: length of time because there are no students who will be able to take the teaching of medicine in English in that particular centre for a long time to come.
Dr. Woods, of Canton, urged the establishment of a strong medical faculty in each of five or six cen: tres, chosen strategically, Dr. McCall said in West and North China they might very well do without an English-speaking school, and he suggested that while we believe that the Chinese language will ultimately be the medium of instruction in medicine, in the meantime we favour the establishment of English or Chinese schools in Centra] and South China."
As to the places where schools should be established, Dr. Tod, of Canton, said the Hongkong University was a Government establiabment, and therefore they ought not to discuss it, Dr. Wu Lien-teh was glad that the matter had been thrashed out in Conference. In discussing the question of language, there seemed to be a misapprehension that North China was rather behind-hand in English. He again wished to draw attention to the fact that Peking was the capital. The curse of. China up to now w t there had been too much provincialism. They wanted the missionary body to have broad view, and to establish the best schools so that the best students could be produced.
Dr. said he would be sorry if anything were done to prevent the teaching of English in Peking, and he suggested that the question of what language should be taught should be left open.
Dr. Duncan Whyte was of opinion that it was impossible for the committee or the Conference to. do anything regarding Peking. Peking would teach in what language they wished to, and the Conference had no control over Peking. The ideal, of course, would be for every provincial town to have s school of medicine, but meanwhile the idea was to have schools at various centres so that -it should not be necessitty for an English-speaking student, who wished yo receive instruction in English and who lived 11 Nurtnern China, to go to a school tne South.
Dr. "Cormack said the Peking faculty would listen to what the Conference said, and would be largely influenced by its action. If they passed the report as it stood it was saying to Peking that English was the right language.
"We are on very dangerous ground," said Dr. Brown. They should consider the committee' report very carefully before—they called it ideal. He did not think shat language should be made a Pint of so much importance. They were agreed that English was merely a crutch until China obtained her own medical literature and language, but during that time they oiast have English, in certain seaools at least, Dr. Maxwell said the ideal scheme was one whereby a Chinese student should have an opportunity of receiving instruction in English or Chinese. They did not want to Propose that the existing schools should be closed up.
Dr. McCall proposed the following amendment: That while we believe that the Chinese language will ultimately be the medium of instruction for medicine in China, recommend, in the meantime, the medium of Englieh should be located in East China, South China and Central China,"
Dr. Woods said they were strug-sling to decide & language which could not be decided any more than the European War could at present be decided.
Dr. Shields characterized some of the discussion as " soademic and theoretical," and said must think of their constituents. He did not think the men in Canton had any right "to vote for what should be taught in Peking any more, than the Peking men should vote for what was to be taught in Canton. Report of Curriculum Committee.
At this stage it was decided to hear the report of the curriculum committee, which was read by Dr. Balme. It recommended that the M. A. create a permanent council on medical education, to consist of four members of ap-Proved medical schools, two from schools not so connected, together with the executive secretary of the Association. Their duty would be to outline an acceptable standard of medicine and to act as a central body to keep in touch with all medical schools. The medical schools approved by the Association should have a course of five years and text books equivalent to European. The standard of admission should be graduation from middle school as defined by the Educational Association. of China, and the student should be
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