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MISSION SCHOOLS FOR MEN AND BOYS. 95The founders have expressed the definite hope thatthe university may develop along the following lines :Steady advance to higher grade and wider scope ofwork, keeping in mind always constant adaptation to thereal needs of China.Increasing support from, and government by, Chinese.Its ultimately becoming in every sense a Chineseinstitution at such time as it shall be possible to leaveit in the hands of Chinese, with the assurance that theideals of the founders will be carried out no less faithfully than if the management were to remain in thehands of the missionaries themselves.The ultimate recognition by the Chinese authoritiesof the degrees of the university. It is also hoped thatwhen the work done reaches the proper standard thedegrees may be recognized by some Western Universities.Neither of these hopes are being built upon, but thepolicy is to develop such an effective institution that itswork w T ill be on a par with that carried on in WesternUniversities and the advantages of an education underits aegis become evident to all men. E. J. CARSON.In South China.In the small compass allotted to this section of thechapter it will be only possible to little more than glanceat some of the many higher institutions, and call attentionto the still more numerous primary schools which havethe southern coast of this mightybeen established alongempire.But even such a brief survey cannot prove otherwisethan inspiring, for these institutions can be nothing lessthan mighty agencies for righteousness and good citizenship.From the kindergarten to the university is a longway, but all along that pathway shines forth the light".thatlighteth every man sanctuaries in very truth