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CHAPTERXXIIEXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEEAPPOINTED BY THE EAST CHINA EDUCATIONALASSOCIATION TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONSIN MIDDLE SCHOOLS(Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association, February J9I6)*The Committee was appointed at the SecondPersonnel ofAnnual Meeting of the East China Educa-Committee ,. , . ... , , n ,,, i -n itional Association, held in Shanghai, Feb.9-10, Igl5. It consisted of Rev. A. W. March, Rev. W. F.Wilson, Mrs. Laurence Thurston, Miss Emma S. Lester andDr. F. D. Gamewell, member ex ofiicio.,T -p, The task before the Committee was to visitas many as possible of the schools of middlegrade in East China for the purpose of getting full information in regard to each school, and of making this information available for the helpfulness of all." Three methodswere adopted by the Committee for the accomplishing ofthis task: (.1) correspondence, (2) the preparation of aquestionnaire regarding middle schools submitted to theprincipals of the schools under consideration, personal(I>)visit and survey of the principal middle schools by theCommittee.The survey was made in November,Dr S P f nand *he Committee was most fortunate ina1lersecuring the co-operation of T.II.P. Sailer,Ph. D., of Teachers College, Columbia University, who wasthen visiting in China. Eight days were given over to thesurvey of eighteen of the thirty-five middle schools on thelist of the Educational Association. The visits were necessarily brief, and were it not that these have been supplemented by correspondence before and after, and by answersto the questionnaires sent out by the Committee, anyextended report based upon them would be of little constructive value, and. might do some schools considerableA ;;<;