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Chengtu is one of the chief centres of government in
China and a place of influence in its educational life. It is clear,
therefore, that by its position it is pre-eminently fitted to be a
university city. Fifteen years ago the Protestant missions in West
China united in their educational work and resolved to found a
university. Land was bought just outside the south gate of Chengtu,
and during one Christmas vacation three boys’ middle schools,
founded by separate missions and situated in different parts of the
city, were hurriedly moved into emergency quarters on the university
grounds. Thus began the University Middle School, which now has. its
own permanent buildings on a site separate from but adjoining the
university grounds. The next year the University opened, also in
emergency quarters, with a class of ten students. |
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