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106 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.Methodist Episcopal Church. The largest that ofNanking is a union institution under the joint control of the American Methodist Episcopal, AmericanPresbyterian, and Foreign Christian (Disciples) Missions. This union was effected within the past year,and as a union university its work has very encouragingprospects.All of these universities make a specialty of English,and most of their advanced work is conducted throughthe medium of the English language. In this, St. John stakes the leading position. Many of its graduates areimportant positions where a knowledge of Englishfillingis required, and many have gone to America for furtherinstruction.These universities are all decidedly Christian intheir aims, and religious instruction forms an importantpart of the regular course.COLLEGES.Next to the universities we shall attempt a briefaccount of the mission colleges of Central China. Thesecolleges are, in some instances, not up to the standard offull-fledged colleges of arts, and all have a larger numberin their preparatory classes than in their college departments. In some cases it would perhaps be more correctto classify them as junior colleges" or high schools ;yet they are all doing genuine educational work, and areso far above the average government school in generalefficiency, and especially in discipline, that it is not unfair to class them as colleges. In the list below we giveonly those which have a hundred or more students :Name. Location. Founded. Students.William Nast College Kiukiang 1883 244Hangchow College Hangchow 1844 145Anglo-Chinese College Shanghai 18-82 180Trinity College Ningpo 1876 103English Methodist College ,, 1906 106778