A Review for

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...recognizes the importance of translating standard medical works into Chinese for use in Chinese medical schools and in missionary schools which teach in the Mandarin. An annual appropriation is made to the Publication Committee of the China Medical Missionary Association, which supervises translation work. A further ... Read More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...recognizes the importance of translating standard medical works into Chinese for use in Chinese medical schools and in missionary schools which teach in the Mandarin. An annual appropriation is made to the Publication Committee of the China Medical Missionary Association, which supervises translation work. A further form of assistance to Chinese medical education has been the granting of fellowships and scholarships to Chinese to enable them to study medicine in the United States, and to missionary doctors who, during their furloughs at home, wish to pursue graduate courses or attend special clinics. When the college in Peking is fully under way the need for the first type of fellowships will largely disappear. To a considerable degree also, medical missionaries will resort to Peking for opportunities which heretofore they have been able to secure only when at home on leave. AID TO CANADIAN AND OTHER MEDICAL SCHOOLS In transmitting his gift of December, 1919, the Founder made the following statement: My attention has been recently called to the needs of some of the medical schools in Canada, but as the activities of the General Education Board are by its charter limited to the United States I understand that no part of that gift may be used for the Canadian schools. The Canadian people are our near neighbors. They are closely bound to us by ties of race, language, and international friendship; and they have without stint sacrificed themselves--their youth and their resources--to the end that democracy might be saved and extended. For these reasons, if your Board should see fit to use any part of this new gift in promoting medical education in Canada, such action would meet with my very cordial approval. At a subsequent meeting of the Foundation, _ne sum of ... Read Less