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With campus and equipment gone, Yenching makes shift in three middle and primary school buildings in Chengtu, limits its enrollment to about 250 (a quarter of its pre-war students). But 3,000 candidates, a record for a missionary college anywhere, anytime, took its entrance examinations...
...Christian university in China. Then Jap soldiers seized its $2,500,000 campus, one of the world's loveliest, put its President J. Leighton Stuart in "honorable confinement." Last week, as it has done each autumn since 1920, Yenching began a new semester-in Free China's Chengtu, 2,000 miles from its old campus. The new Yenching, though it had lost its President, had many of the same faculty and students, the same standards of untrammeled scholarship. Educated Chinese were as elated as Frenchmen would have been if the Sorbonne had reopened on the Free French island...
...continue its own life but to forestall the opening by the Japanese of a bogus Yenching on the old campus. Though the university lost its campus, it did not lose its $2,800,000 endowment: that was safely in the hands of its board of trustees in Manhattan. At Chengtu (nickname: "Little Peiping"), where it is a neighbor of West China Union University and three other Christian universities (Ginling, Nanking, Cheeloo), Yenching is likely to remain one of the world's great universities: to its already distinguished faculty it plans to add several eminent foreign scholars...
Flying a daytime flight from Chungking to Chengtu in a Douglas DC-3, Captain Hugh L. Woods (who had been shot down by the Japanese once before) was attacked by a flight of five Japanese bombers. Woods dived, landed the plane on a tiny field at Suifu, taxied his ship to the edge of some woods, evacuated his passengers. The Japanese planes followed, dropped 200 bombs. One of the bombs splintered the DC-3's right wing like a lightning-struck tree branch...
...Governor of Szechwan Province comes each Sunday morning to worship at the once-beleaguered university chapel in Chengtu. In Chungking, the Christian leader of China rules with his Christian wife, aided by a Christian Finance Minister and a host of other Christian officials...