Old Schools Reopen With Addition of Many New Ones nex ALR OWN ConnesrONDENT
Kaifeng, Ho., Mar. 8
Everything is so quiet and peaceful in this city, and so well ordered, that, were it not for the hosts of soldiers constantly undergoing the most intensive drilling in every open apace, one might well forget that China was at war with herself. I atill have no reason to change my Judgment on the, bona fides of the Northwest Administration in the matter of protection for all alike, foreign and Chinese, Christian and non-Christian. "There are still clements in the province who would gladly have trouble stirred up and the road of the present officials is not an easy one to travel, but the ures they are adopting. to meet these reactionary agents, the consistent carrying out of Marshal ug's former pronouncement of} policy, and the more recent attitude of the Nanking Government deserve lation of all The present Full in hostilities amd] the passage of time, permitting cor dation and ea-ordination of government organizations, of tive progress in this city. Tt but a short time since that one had to report all schools closed; now! there is a perfect frenzy of reopen-{ng schools and of opening new ones. In-a recent letter mention was made of a change of policy concerning] Intermediate schools, to which may added a word. In the old da; there were in this city First a Schools for boys, the Agricultural Coll School, the Industrial So) the Lin Mei, or Preparatory School for students going to America and Burope for high studies, Higher Education This latter schoo! eventually befeame the Chung Chow, or Honan College, which it continues to be! under the name of Chang Shan, in compliment to Dr. Sun Yat-sen. 'This school, under the presidency of Dr. Ling Ping, seems to have been elevated into a' keystone position for all the higher educational work of the Province. It is to be the goal for all students seeking higher} education and therefore it is to ex. excite not only critical powers over middle" school curricula, but ap-Parently also something in the way' Of disciplinary powers over the ndministration of the Middle Schools. All the other schools of this city] come under the general name of the First Middle School of the province, with several faculties, which are] coated in the schools formerly under their own local administration. "The! heads' of there "faculty" institutions fare not now principals of their] schools but deans of those faculties, and all the consolidated staffs of the! city schools—about, 160 teachers—have a part in the "committee government" of the schools. There are feld to be now about 2,000 students in these several faculties, but another 1,000 are expected.
Apart from the above-mentioned institutions are the short-course schools, of several months duration, under the Commissioner of Finance: fand the Civil Administration, This section known as the "School for Preparing Civil Administrators" has had two departments, for preparing: magistrates and police department heads, Now a third is being added, for preparing public health and hygiene demonstrators, whose duties will be province-wide, 'A number of entirely new primary schools have been opened and funds found somewhere to provide uniforms and books for the pupils Throughout all the primary grades, hoys and girls are to attend together, which is distinct departure from the former procedure.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.