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MISSION SCHOOLS FOR MKN AND BOYS. 99school with a few day pupils, a result of the establishment of fairly good government primary schools. Students come from Rangoon, Saigon, Manila, and Formosa,as well as from the province. The Y. M. C. A. has over40 members.Amoy Union Middle School. Rev. P. W. Pitcher,M.A., principal.This union institution is under the management ofthe three Missions A. B. M., E- P. M., and L. M. S.The union was consummated in 1907, and has been mostsuccessful. On the teaching staff there are 2 foreignersand 5 native teachers. 60 pupils. Three other foreigners each teach an hour a day. The aim is to developcharacter and to lay the foundations of a broad and useful education ; the chief cornerstone being Christianity.The medium of instruction is the vernacular, Englishbeing taught as a subject. The effort in recent yearshas been made to increase the school s efficiency, withsome success. The standard has been raised and thecurriculum, with some exceptions, made to conformmore and more to government schedules. A keenerinterest in study is noticeable.There are two other middle schools in this districtworking along similar lines, viz., Choanchiu MiddleSchool, Rev. A. S. M. Anderson, principal about; 30students ;the Hweian Middle School, Miss A. M. Home,principal.Elementary (Day) Schools. There are about 100schools with 2,500 pupils. Within the past three yearsgreater attention has been given to providing uniformcurricula in primary and grammar grades and in bringing them in conformity with government schedules. Thishas been partly successful. While most of these schoolsare for day pupils only, yet in important centres likeChoanchiu, Tongan, Siokhe, Chiangchiu and Changpuboarding accommodations have been provided for thegrammar grade (^ ^).