Shortly after this period it wag decided to induce students to con? tinue their studies after completing four years' preparatory course. Accordingly scholarships were offer-fed to graduates, entitling them to free tuition and board provided they would agree to take a college course of three years. The first class entre entered the College lege perty was bought at a surprisingly red brick in the Gothic style, A|1890 consisted of two low sum. Tt was connected with small dispensary was also built students. The college grew and Shanghai by a so-called road which had been used for the transport of goods for General Gordon's army during the Taiping rebellion. The five miles; however, could only be travelled by riesha or wheelbarrow and the original forty-five students who started the school arrived by Soochow Creek in a boat, The first winter was miserable for those forty-five students, They near the entrance, used not only the students but for the villages aswell. The friendly relationships in which its open clini ies resulted is adequately shown by the gift of the Memorial Arch which is being presented to he University on its fiftieth birthd lay by the villagers of Zaukadoo taken of their appreciation.
The Medical Department had its when Dr. Hawks Pott, who was the headmaster of the school, returned from the United States, after furlough, he brought funds for a new college building. The plans for this building were drawn in the United States. An attempt was made to preserve certain. features of Chinese architecture, especially the gracefully curved roof. To St. John's belongs the credit of dog inning as early as 1880 who en||introducing this new style of, lived in Spartan simplicity, studying by candle-light and shivering in the cold, None of the school rooms was heated and the three meals a day were of the plainest faie.No provision was made for physical exercise and recreation took the form of kite-Aying and walking. It was not until 1890, when Mr. S, E. Smalley, from Canada, began to organize athletics that the Chinese dignity allowed their sports tobe anything but clandestine, Mr, Smalley at first met with definite reluctance from the students to take part in games. However, as soon as they had Joarned, to lift their fect from the Cly. H. W. Boone was put in char of the dispensary. His duties architecture which was afterwards at adopted by other mission colleges, ground and forget their inhibitions they ce-operated heartily Teaching English Tt was attempted, at first, to introduce the Mandirin dialect' into all the classes. Neatly all the Sturdents, however, came from lets where the Wu dialect was spoken and the plan was soon abandoned. A department for teaching English was started in 1881. For the sum of $8 a month for board and tuition twelve students The Cooper Memori
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