POPULOUS AND BEAUTIFUL SZECHUAN 
ROADWAY 
lined with shops or a blank wall, lie 
mazes of courts one after another, bor- 
dered by rooms opening out upon them. 
It is to give space for this system of 
ramifying interior courts that the main 
streets are placed so far apart. The 
charm of a Chinese city is thus not in its 
exterior, not in the face it sets to the 
street, the public, or the stranger, but in 
the inner courts, the recesses of its dwell- 
ing places. Chinese civilization centers 
on the family. 
THE NEW UNIVERSITY 
But the attractions of Chengtu are not 
wholly physical. Its new intellectual at- 
titude is one of its most inviting features. 
It has reason to be proud of a new uni- 
versity, shaped on.modern lines and rap- 
idly growing into place and influence 
under the patronage of the government. 
To this is added a second university, now 
building under the generous cooperation 
of fve missionary bodies, and taking 
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shape, under western religious and scien- 
tific direction, on broad and liberal lines. 
The generous spirit and genial relations 
of these Chinese and Christian educa- 
tional endeavors is a model for other 
lands, and though there is as yet but a 
beginning of the higher and better edu- 
cation, it promises to be the beginning 
of great as well as good things. 
A TRIP INTO THE SZECHUAN ALPS 
Time in Chengtu was precious to us 
for educational inquiries, but the call of 
the nearby Szechuan Alps was too strong 
to be put aside by geologists, and so a 
morning of early April found us tra- 
versing the Manchu city and leaving 
Chengtu by the west gate. We were late 
in starting, due to the inevitable delay in 
bringing together the coolies to carry the 
chairs and baggage, adjusting the porter 
loads, and arranging and starting the 
caravan. 
Furthermore, when just outside the 
