. India and Malaysia . ge number whenwe remember that the first one appeared only sixteen yearsago, and that candidates are subjected to a very thoroughwritten examination. Only four ladies have taken the degree of M. B.—allChristians—but there are a number of licentiates from theuniversity medical colleges. Degrees are only given to thosewho have passed the first examination in arts before com-mencing their medical studies. . It may be well to insert here a short extract from MyMissionary Apprenticeship, published eight years ago, inwhich the origin of the Moradabad boarding-school is ex-plai
. India and Malaysia . ge number whenwe remember that the first one appeared only sixteen yearsago, and that candidates are subjected to a very thoroughwritten examination. Only four ladies have taken the degree of M. B.—allChristians—but there are a number of licentiates from theuniversity medical colleges. Degrees are only given to thosewho have passed the first examination in arts before com-mencing their medical studies. . It may be well to insert here a short extract from MyMissionary Apprenticeship, published eight years ago, inwhich the origin of the Moradabad boarding-school is ex-plained, and from which its providential mission will becomemore apparent. It now enrolls nearly one hundred and fiftyboarders annually. In all our missions in India Ave haveeleven hundred Christian girls in boarding-schools. Just before Mrs. Parker left for America, she had made asmall beginning in the way of a boarding-school for girls, and hadreceived the first three pupils. Her plan was to gather in the village. MISS CHANDRA MUKHI BOSE, M. A. EDUCATION AMONG WOMEN. 379 girls, and, after giving them a simple education, send them backagain to their homes, where they, might be expected to act like somuch leaven among the native Christians in the villages. Find-ing it impossible to arrange for these girls in Moradabad, had made them over to Mrs. Zahur-ul-Haqq, who lived in thecity of Amroha. For a time the. people held aloof, and were un-willing to send their girls away from home; but during these toursin the villages I succeeded in picking up a few pupils, and beforethe close of the year the school began to assume very respectableproportions. The next year the Womans Foreign Missionary Societywas most opportunely founded, and the school, having fallen underits fostering care, has had a career of wonderful prosperity. It nowcontains more than one hundred pupils, and the girls who have beentaught in it are exercising the most wholesome influence all throughthe village
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