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"294 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.schools the course comCourse of Study. In manyprises the work of the first five years in the boardingschoolof that mission, which means that thorough instruction in the Bible and other Christian books is offered.The general tendency is to give a good course inChinese. It is not deemed wise to give English exceptwhere pupils insist upon it, and then an extra charge ismade.foeSf Some schools give tuition free, but manycharge a nominal fee of twenty or thirty cents a mouth.One school asks $1.00 a year for tuition without Englishand $4.00 with English, but expects to increase theamount next year.Teaching Staff. Only a few schools are able toafford a man of the old school" for teaching theclassics. Most of the missions employ young womengraduated from the girls boarding-school or from thewoman s Bible training school as teachers in the dayschool,and even where Chinese men teachers areemployed the school is in charge of one of these youngwomen, and missionaries tell of very efficient teachingdone by them. Some of the well developed day-schoolswith a large enrollment have as many as four teacherson their staff.Results. In one day-school, with an enrollment ofeighty, most of the pupils have become Christians as aresult of the faithfulness of the young woman incharge. In all the day-schools the outlook is encouraging, and there have been accessions to the church fromamong the pupils. One large day-school has an enthusiastic Y. W. C. T. U. The day-schoolis often thebeginning of a boarding-school, as in the case of theHangchow Presbyterian Girls School, which grew outof a day-school started in 1899. Central China has notthat network of day-schools that some parts of theEmpire is fortunate enough to have, and considering the