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418 OTHER INTERDENOMINATIONAL ASSOCIATIONSIII.NORTH-CHINA AMERICAN SCHOOLThe North-China American School is a union institutionfounded by the American Board, the Methodist EpiscopalBoard, and the Presbyterian Board for the children of theirmissionaries in the provinces of Chihli, Shantung andShansi. It offers its facilities also to other American andEuropean children.The school aims to prepare students to enter schoolsand colleges in America, and hopes to render unnecessarythe early separation of children from their parents. It isChristian but non-sectarian.The school is located at Tungchovv, about twelvemiles east of Peking, with which it is connected by threetrains per day each way. It is situated in the compound ofthe American Board with its beautiful and spacious groundsseventy acres in extent. A resident physician cares for thehealth of the community and the large staff of instructorsof the Union Medical College, Peking, can be called upon atshort notice for consultation and assistance in case ofemergency. There is abundant room for tennis, foot-ball,basket-ball, base-ball, hand-ball, field sports, gardening andother out-door activities.A substantial building has been erected on a plan thatallows for enlargement as conditions may demand. It iswell located as regards light and drainage, provides severalpleasant class rooms of various si/es, as well as bedroomsand dining rooms, and the stairway is fire-proof from topto bottom.The principal and matron of the school is Miss FloraBeard who came to North China after several years ofsuccessful work as teacher and principal in the publicschools of South Orange, New Jersey. Miss Beard alsoconducted a school for English-speaking children in Foochowbetween the years of 1905 and 1909. The associateteacher is Miss Mary L. Beard, who spent three years in theBlanchard-Gamble School, Santa Barbara, California, teaching science and mathematics, and four years in the MonticelloSeminary where she taught Physics, Chemistry,Botany, Zoology and Astronomy. The Misses Beard took up