TABLE 6.-Study schedule for the academic department of the Language School. Tennis courts, athletic fields, and gymnastic apparatus are provided. Owing to the interest taken by the native students in athletics, their physical condition is being much improved. Athletic and bicycle meets between the different schools are held each year and prove to be of great benefit. There were enrolled 76 students during the year 1906. The number of graduates from this department for the same year was 6. Since the establishment of the school 113 students have been graduated. The girls' school.-For the education and industrial training of girls there was established in 1898 at Shirin a school which, for administrative purposes, is dependent upon the Language School. This school is intended solely for the education of girls and provides two courses, namely, course A, for common education; course B, for domestic sciences. Course A requires three years for completion and prescribes the following studies: Morals, Japanese, arithmetic, writing, music, and sewing. Pupils entering this course must be at least 8 years and not over 14 years of age. Course B provides for six years' work and prescribes the following studies: Morals, Japanese, reading, writing, arithmetic, music, sewing, knitting, artificial flower making, and embroidering. Students in this course range from 12 to 18 years of age. There are three Japanese teachers, one of whom is a woman, and one native Chinese woman teacher. The native teacher instructs the younger pupils in sewing, for which she receives $3.50 a month. Students are admitted by examination and but a limited number are accepted each year. At present there are 26 pupils enrolled in course A and 24 in course B. Since 1898 there have been enrolled in the school 350 pupils, of whom 50 have been graduated. Of these graduates, 30 are engaged as teachers in the public schools at salaries ranging from $2.50 to $5 a month, and the remainder have married and live at home. The school is at present housed in poor quarters, two of the class rooms having earth floors. But a new building is planned for the school when it is moved to Taihoku, and a proper normal department for the training of women teachers will then be added. The work done by this school is indeed creditable, and when it is removed to more spacious and better equipped quarters it may be expected to fill a prominent position among the schools for the education of the natives. The Medical School.-When the Medical School was opened eight years ago the instructors were obliged to go among the Chinese and labor to secure students, and, in spite of the fact that the Government provided free schooling and a liberal allowance to cover the students' living expenses, their efforts were not at first crowned with much But when a few students were graduated and the parents discovered the splendid opportunities that a medical training offered for liberal financial returns, they were no longer hesitant about sending their children to the school. There are in Formosa 1,700 native Chinese physicians practicing according to old Chinese methods. The object of the Medical School is to replace these by trained physicians. The demand for the trained native physician is indeed good if we are to judge from the money compensation which the graduates of the Medical School now receive. The graduates, numbering 75, earn from $25 to $150 a month each. The wage of the Chinese laborer in the island averages $6 a month. In face of the splendid incomes of these graduates, it is no little wonder that the money-loving Chinaman is anxious to have his son become an M. D. The Medical School accommodates but 35 new students a year. Although the regulations of the school provide that the students' entire living expenses and tuition are to be defrayed by the institution, yet of the 300 applicants for admission at the beginning of the present year 30 offered to pay their own expenses. So long as the regulations remain as they are, admission will be determined entirely upon the basis of competitive examinations. Of the 158 students at present enrolled in the school, 10 pay their own way, while on the other hand there are a number who entered without a penny to their credit. |