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428 OTHER INTERDENOMINATIONAL ASSOCIATIONSshowing the order and number of strokes of each. Amnemonic analysis of characters, based upon the Hsioh- Wen,is also used.Opportunity for speech-making , interpreting, debating,story-telling, and other oral exercises, is given.Saturday morning is reserved for review work. Generalwritten and oral reviews occur about every five weeks.Study with the Chinese teachers is under constantforeign and Chinese supervision.In the past some of the students in theschool have been hampered by the fact thatthe missions to which they belong requirethem to study the language course of the mission and takeexaminations on it as well as take the work in the schools.The writer has examined more than thirty of the missionlanguage courses in China and has helped to prepare some ofthem. lie is firmly convinced that not one of them is so wellplanned and so thoroughly adapted to the needs of the students as is the course of the Nanking Language School.Furthermore the \*ork done in the school is done in a muchmore thorough way than work done on the old plan, Thosemissions which are getting the most good out of thelanguage school, are the ones which realize that its work isto be accepted as a full year s work and that the languagecourse of the mission should be reconstructed to fit thecourse of the school.ExaminationsThe Special Committee on the Training of^Missionaries of the China Continuation Committee has recommended that the languageschools should prepare courses covering three years workand should conduct local examinations like the Oxfordlocals, doing the work after the first year on the unit system,that students may so specialize as to get the particularpreparation needed in different missions and in differentdepartments of missionary work. The Nanking LanguageSchool and other language schools are planning to do this,and when it is done the passing of language examinationswill carry more of prestige than is now the case. Until alarger staff and more equipment make this step possible thelanguage study committees of the various missions will do