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74 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.of baptizing during the past year over one hundredyoung men representing influential families in all theprovinces, save one, in China. Another member of theclass has a place in the maritime customs in Tientsin.The fifth member of the class isemployed by one of themining companies in Tientsin. He also takes a prominent part in religious work, and has been very helpfulin the Young Men s Christian Association in securingthe site for their proposed new building and in raisingthe 42,000 taels to pay for it.Those five boys were among the first students enrolled after the university was organized and when thewhole number in attendance could not have been morethan forty or fifty. They have already given eightyyears of their combined service to the church and theircountry. They are still in the prime of life, and muchmore may be expected from them in the future. In thesecond place, it gives us a proper view-point from whichto estimate the growth of the university.Instead of the one story building then in use, locatedin one end of the mission compound with a play groundnot as large as the floor of this building, we have thesethree large buildings, one four stories high, includingthe basement, and a beautiful campus of nearly twentyacres. Instead of the two foreign and two Chineseteachers then, there is now a faculty in the Arts Department alone of eight foreigners and sixteen Chinese.Four separate departments of instruction have beenorganized, namely, the College Preparatory, the College of liberal Arts, the Theological College, and theMedical College. The latter has been united with theMedical College of the North China Educational Union,and is located on the premises of the London Mission.The two score students have increased to five hundred and eighty in all departments, and, including thestudents in the six intermediate schools which are feedersto the university, there are not far from two thousandunder instruction, allpursuing the same course of study