'A big hospital, which will be specially devoted to patients suffering from tuberculosis, is being built by' the Adventist Mission beside the East Lake, across an arm of the lake from the Wuhan University, It is fine three storeyed _ferro-concrete building. with wide verandahs and big {ron-framed windows, Around It are doctors' houses and." bungalows for patients wishing to live in their own quarters. A road is being built to connect the hospital with Wuchang.
On June 23, the Dragon Boat festival was celebrated on the Bast Lake with boat races between many teams of students. The local sampans were the racing boats, propelled by ight men with paddles and one man with oars. With such boats ona very hot day, the "two-mile course was ud easy one. Enormeus crowds came from Hankow and Wuchang {0 see the races and enjoy the place.
'The season of schoo! commencements is upon us. From every school students are graduating, with more of Tess suitable ceremony, duly imonished and encouraged' by the speeches of their elders. And their teachers are ready for a good holiday. For last term ended rather sbrupily fon January 3 and this term has had to be lengthened and there have been breaks in it.
But there is to be little holiday for the men teachers of the middle schools. For under orders of the provincial Government they are all attend a training camp for four weeks from the mid did of July to the middle of August; here there will bbe physical and military—training every day, lectures and" refresher courses, opportunities for discussion of educational problems.
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