THE MENTOR 1918.08.01, No. 160,
Photography

A Voice From Far Cathay

Dear Mentor:—One of my most respected college professors advised his classes to review their several groups of studies every seven years, and in the broad, I agree with the advice. It is just this review that The Mentor gives some of us. The Mentor is not learned. It furnishes a most readable review, with pithy editorials and discriminatively selected pictures. It can be appreciated by the man who has never been outside the town of his birth, and it can be enjoyed by the person who has converted stamped gold into the legal tender which lets one into the city, or gallery, or park, or museum, or observatory described; and it can be read with profit by the one who is interpreting life in the class room.

I usually read it by bits between courses at the dinner table, and it often has taken the place of another seat. It has this advantage: it never talks shop, save in an entertaining way.

The pictures make good material for “identification” or “information tests.” A selection of twenty makes good material for one “stunt” of an evening for a small group of guests.

But I like them best for use in a bulletin board in my class room. With titles or brief notes translated into Chinese, they attract the students around the board between classes. It is an easy matter to have a series of fifteen or twenty groups through the year, that are of interest to one’s students, and give real information and stimulus.

This letter is not designed to lead you to believe that the publication takes its place with the essential possessions of the American missionary in the Orient—the Bible, Montgomery Ward catalog, and tennis racquet—but it is written that you may know that it helps one to keep “fit.”

In appreciation, yours,

Daniel S. Dye

West China Union University
Chengtu, West China

The Mentor Association

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