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9 8 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.and other places, such as the C. M. S. High School,Junior Boys Boarding-school at Foochow, Anglo-ChineseHigh School at Hinghua (M. H. M.), Schell-CooperBoarding-school at Kucheng (M. E. M.), the InghokBoarding-school at Inghok (A. B. C. F. M.), DublinUniversity School at Funingfu (C. M. S.)-Elementary. In the districts under the care of thethree Missions namely : American Board, ChurchMissionary Society and the Methodist Episcopal Mission,there are 700 schools with something like 14,500 pupils.Kindergartens.204 pupils.There are three kindergartens withAmoy. The educational work in Amoy during thepast three years has been one of development in thethree grades to which it is confined, viz., kindergarten,elementary, and middle, a grade corresponding to a highschool in America,Anglo-Chinese College. Prof. H. F. Rankin, principalṪhis institution is under the joint management ofthe E. P. M. and L- M. S. There are 6 foreign and 9native teachers. 175 students.Improvement has been marked by the attendancebeing more steady and more regular. Greater interest ismanifested in Chinese subjects, while the students havereached the wise conclusion that English is not to beacquired in a year or two.It has been possible to do more advanced work, asthe students have come better prepared and are willingto remain longer. Pupils are learning better to reason out things for themselves and are getting a wideroutlook. The school provides a Christian educationalong Western lines to sons of the upper and middleclasses (fees from S or 9). It prepares for, ratherthan provides, a college course. The college ischangingfrom a day-school with a few boarders 7 into a boarding-