Identifier: surveyaprsep1918surv (find matches)
Title: The Survey April-September 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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or many years aprimary school has been run and supported entirely by thesecollege students. Besides this, a flourishing day school wasfounded by the St. Johns College Young Mens ChristianAssociation. It has a dormitory with eighty boarders andtwenty day students. The school is now self-supporting. Be-sides paid teachers, twenty college students give one or morehours a week to teaching in this school. Similar day andnight schools have been founded by college men in Peking,Canton, Tientsin, and other cities. The St. Johns Collegestudents have also established a public lecture hall in a villagenear the college. Three times a week lectures on educationaland moral subjects are delivered by the students. Similarwork has been done in the government lecture halls by stu-dents of the American Indemnity College near Peking. The Lecture Department of the Young Mens ChristianAssociation has taken the lead in carefully prepared lecturesby experts calculated to influence whole cities and provinces.
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*-*Jr * ,*i CHI N I -i B01 s< oi rsIn the western hills north of Peking, the first boy scouts ofNorth China hold their encampments every summer. Thehills in the background arc stripped bare of even the smallest bushes for fuel THE SURVEY FOR SEPTEMBER 7, igi 637 Demonstrated lectures are abundantly illustrated by pieces ofapparatus expressly constructed so as to be easily visible toaudiences of large size and easily explained. Lectures havebeen prepared on the following topics: The gyroscope and its uses, wireless telegraphy, high andlow temperatures, electricity and magnetism, education,aeronautics, sound, atmosphere, conservation, public health. In a lecture campaign in 1914 in ten large cities, 137,111persons attended. In Peking these lectures were held in amat shed, with a seating capacity of four thousand, situatedin what was formerly the emperors palace gardens. Overtwenty thousand of all classes attended a scientific lecture onHigh and Low Temperatures. David Yui, the educat

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