RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

CHINA PROGRAM 329
Public Affairs during the academic year 1935-36.
Yenching University is one of the foremost
private colleges in China, and
is successfully
preparing itself to play a significant role in the
development of modern China. While continuing
its regular program in premedical and prenursing
education, it has instituted a new social
science program which aims to train young Chinese
for positions in rural administration, local
government, rural education, village industry,
and for social and economic positions.
The
Yenching program in relation to this plan is being
worked out by a special committee of Yenching
representatives and members from Nankai
University and the Mass Education Movement
in Ting Hsien. With the opening of the school
year in 1935, special courses were offered for the
first time and new staff members were appointed
who had the necessary qualifications to make the
standard of teaching of the rural subjects high.
The natural sciences at Yenching, which have
received support in past years from the Foundation,
are also being redirected in part toward
problems of rural significance. The Department
of Biology is concentrating its researches in the
field of economic entomology, and the Department
of Chemistry isinterested in the chemical
problems of village industry, such as ceramics,
tanning, etc.
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