The largest course on Chinese affairs in the entire country has been offered during the past year by Princeton's History Department. Dealing with Asiatic civilizations and urban indi trialism from the anthropological and sociological viewpoint, the course enrolled 160 students during the last academic year.
Tu addition to a course in Oriental art, a programme of study on the development of social and political institutions in China and Japan and a survey of their nature and significance today has been sponsored by the Department of Politics.
Carrying on a forty-year tradition is the Princeton-Yenching Foundation, an organization of Princeton alumni which supports ce-operation between Nassau's School of Public and International Affairs and Yenching University, Peiping, China.
A scholarship to a Princeton senior, enabling him to spend a year studying and teaching at Yenching, largest Christian Chinese university has been awarded several times by the foundation, Although no such grant was made this year, one member of the class of 1940, Frederick L. Skinner of Providenc&y R. L, has received a Japanese scholarship to study in the Orient next year.
Excellent facilities For Oriental study here are provided by the Gest Research Library, which contains the second largest collection of Chinese literature in the nation, 195,000 volumes. Supplementing the Gest Library for the past two years has been the Princeton University Library, which has acquired oriental material through a Rockefeller Foundation grant
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