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254 GENERAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONforty-one in the Junior College. The Medical School hnsbeen opened with eleven .students. The enterprise of founding a University has received the hearty and sincerecommendation of the highest Chinese authorities in theprovince of Szechwan. In connection with the Universitythe Higher Primary School of the Goucher unit has beenbuilt and will soon be in operation.The inauguration of the Fukien UnionFukien Union ~ ,, -P ., -n miCollege College of Liberal Arts in Foochow. TinsCollege has received the approval of sixmissions, and three missions are already actively participating in it. It opened February 19, 1916 with eighty-fiveregistered students: fifty-one Freshmen, twenty-oneSophomores, and seven special students. It stands in needof buildings and equipment, but it would appear to haveanswered a great need and has a future 1 full of promise.. T ^ The , lf opening of the Oinling & College & forGiming College ,. r , .XT mi . . . -,\\ omen at Nanking. Phis is a union undertaking entered into by the Presbyterian, Baptist. ForeignChristian and Northern and Southern Methodist EpiscopalMissions. It is the first attempt at the establishment of aninstitution of collegiate grade for women in central China.Conditions are such that the education for girls Jags behindthat of boys. Much patience must be exercised before afully equipped college for women can be organized, but nowthat a start has been made in earnest, we may expect asteady development. This Christian College for Womenmay become a model for government institutions that arestill only on paper.Increase in the number of students in theEnrolmentolder established institutions. With but fewexceptions we find an increase in the numberof students in missionary colleges and middle schools.Many of them are taxed to the utmost limit to provideaccommodation for applicants. In centres where there hasbeen unrest, as in Wuchang, there has been some fallingoilbut in other centres there has been a marked, growth.St. John s University in Shanghai started the year with anenrollment of over two hundred students in the College ofArts and Sciences.