At the recent commencement sea son, eighteen students graduated from the North China Theological Seminary, and 23 from the Senior Middle School of Mateer Memorial Institute. Both of these institutions have had a good year, free from inferruption of any kind. Some stu dents come from distant paris of China: almost every province is represented. In order to save expenses several students "stay "here during the summer and winter " vacations, Some of the recent graduates. were absent from their homes for four years.
If each student would speak his dialed, the Seminary would be a veritable Tower of Babel, Most of the students, "however, make an effort to speak some sort of Mandarin, though in many cases their pronunciation is sadly dilapidates, Three American families are leaving Tenghsien this summer for furous; the Rev. and Mrs, Kenneth Kep-Jer, the Rey, and Mrs, A. N, Mace Leod and the Rev. and Mrs, H.-G, Romig. Mr. MacLeod is a member of the Seminary faculty, the others fare evangelist workers. Br, and Mrs, 'A. B. Dodd, who went on furlough fast December, expect to return to Tenghsien at the end of the present summer, in time for him to resume his teaching "when the Seminary opens on September 4,, The wheat crop has now been harvested and the general opinion is that it has been a" short one, because a of land was still flooded at sowing time, for several weeks, suffering. A. "small Jin fell this morning, more rain comes soon, all crops will be short, While there Is no sclentife method of estimating the wheat crop, some persons have guessed it at about 70 Per cent. of a full yield, Of course {his figure refers to the average ylela er acre; if the reduced aerenge 1s taken into, account, the total crop of wheat in this district 1s perhaps well below this) Ogure, A very pretty wedding took place {in the Seminary Chapel on Jung 22; when Miss Ruth Mel, of Kwanglung and Shenghai, became the wile of De, Joseph Hwang, of Kwangtung. 'The groom has just graduated medicine at" Cheeloo' University, Tsinan, The bride has graduated in Bethel Hospital, Shang-'They will make their home in Shanghai, where Dr, Hwang will be connected with Lester Institute, The father of the groom and the father of the bride are in America, 30 their places on the programme wore filled by substitutes,
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