Peking, Sept. 20, Yenching University, the leading missionary college in North China, has opened its school year with a record enrollment for its first year under a Chinese Chancellor, Dr. Wa Lei-chuan. The university, which is suen-denominational, and represents a large investment several Protestant missions, has registered with the Government Nanking under the new regulations which forbid compulsory. instruction in the Christian religion, oF compulsory religious services. "The former Chancellor, Dr. Leighton Stuart, is remaining with the university, retaining the title of pres-ut, but is definitely subordinate Chinese Chancellor.
Elaborate ceremonies have been arranged for the formal dedication of Yenching's new campus, three tiles outside the walls of Peking, fon which a doze modern buildings adapted to the Chinese style of architecture by an American are chitect, have been constructed, Yenching is a ce-educational me stitution, with an enrollment this, year of 461 men and 161 women, Even during the years when mise sion institutions were threatened with extinction in China, Yenching managed to keep open with a con siderable student body. Ong of the new features this year is a depart-meng of journalism, the money for which was valsed last year among editors in the United States—
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