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CHAPTER XLSCHOOLS FOR MISSIONARIESI. CHEFOO SCHOOLSCHILDRENThe Chefoo Schools for Missionaries Children was thefirst of its kind to be opened in China. It has just completedanother successful year. While chiefly planned to accommodate the children of missionaries of the China InlandMission, children belonging to missionaries of other societiesare admitted, as far as accommodations will allow. A recentreport states thatEncouraging results have followed the work in the Chefoo Schools,nil <f the fifty-three pupils who sat for the Oxford examinationsthirty-four boys and nineteen girls having passed. Of these eighteen took honours. Thus out of the 29.")scholars, 1X5 boys and 110girls, who have entered for these examinations since they we refirst held at Chefoo in 1908, all have passed with the exception ofone boy and four girls.During the year the School for smaller children conducted by the China Inland .Mission at Killing was burneddown, and it is not intended to rebuild this school.Arrangements will be made for the education of the youngerchildren elsewhere.II.THE SHANGHAI AMERICAN SCHOOLJ. W. Paxton^eBe innin Shanghai American School was inevistable. Among the many recognized problemsof the missionary propaganda in China has been that of thepreparation of the workers children for entrance into thehome colleges. It had been found, by many experiments,that such work undertaken in the families, was, at the best,desultory and inadequate. Likewise the method used insome instances, of having teachers sent out from home todo this work among groups of families, had proved troublesome, unsatisfactory and expensive. This general experience