RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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cial and economic problems. Ting Hsien is used
as the training ground for some of the graduate
students of the Institute of Economics of Nankai
University,
The most important immediate outcome of
Foundation collaboration with Nankai University
has been the development of two-year comprehensive
but untraditional postgraduate
courses in the field of cooperation, land administration,
local government, and local finance.
In addition to seminars, the plan provides for
field investigations on some definite project
which the student in question is assigned for an
eight-month period to test out under official
auspices in an actual community. This type of
training qualifies the men
for administrative
posts in the field of rural reconstruction. Eleven
fellowships for these courses have been awarded
from local fellowship funds.
Yenchlag University, Pelping
The sum of LC?58,12S was appropriated in
May
1935 to Yenching University toward the
general budgets of the College of Public Affairs
and the College of Natural Sciences during the
year beginning July 1, 1935; and in November
1935 an additional sum, amounting to LQ$19,20Q,
was voted for the development of training
courses in rural reconstruction at the College of
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