FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.
"EN PASSANT”
Present-Day Impressions of China
[By C.L.C.]
THE CHINA MAIL,
WẠH YAN COLLEGE
(Continued from Pape 6.) ́`·
The self-appointed erities, who are so ready with their gratuitous advice and suggestions, are by no means unanimous as to what is
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED
NOTICE.
Reply
weeks before the Local Examina- really requisite. As soon as they tions took place, and this material-altempt to criticise the currieula of ly helped them to pass, some schools, we find a great diversity. with distinction, in both physics of opinion as to what should be WANTED-Young Portuguese Girl
with experience of mailing. 1 should like to studied and what left out. They Secretary, P.O. Box 22 That it is almost next to impos- evolved. In trade and commerce and chemistry, sible at this juncture for China lies her surest hope of redemption. take this opportunity once more to forget that an educational theory to have a unified Government is It must be remembered, too, that thank His Lordship and the Italian is no use unless it can be translated obvious to all. Anyone who is the prosperity of trade is strictly Fathers for their constant support into terms of a fixed time-table and familiar with political conditions connected with the right adminis-and encouragement, and for the limited staff.
unfailing interest they always take
Every thinking person knows). in China realises the difficultiestration of justice and law.
TAK AND COMPANY will confronting the country.
Further, what China also needs in the development and progress of that for a boy to study all the sub-
I jects that may be offered for the
No. remove their offices to The Kuomintang Party is not to-day is a good set of laws and the college.
examinations is starkly impossible, 36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Sports a unified body due to the pre-a body of magistrates able to ad-
Our third annual athletic meet-and about what is impossible there second
Floor, entrance from sence within its ranks of rival minister such laws, without fear
on MONDAY, military and political factions. or favour, in a fair and equitable ing took place on May 2 at the can be no argument. The boy must D'Aguilar Street, They all have diverse views on spirit, untrammelled by any com-Hong Kong Football Club Ground, select, but selection implies a wide the 27th instant
Happy Valley. More boys compet-field of choice and requires skilful the question of the power andthet-with-politics. ----
ed in the various events than practice. How can a boy discover control of the Central Govern-
in the two previous years. The what he is interested in and what ment. And the present civil war Disbandment of Troups is the result of party jealousy. The most urgent problem, how- Senior Championship was again he can study best, unless he is in- the troduced to as many subjects as! Marshal Li Chai-sum has also ever, is the immediate disband-won by Fung Kwok-wa, and fallen a prey to the jealousy ofment of troops under the various Junior Championship was carried the school or college can teach him? HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
off by Li Fai-mou.
It may surprise some of the eri- Chiang Kai-shek, and now that war lords. The plague of soldiers
We held our annual gymnastic tics to hear that those of our boys the "Christian General" is in dis-marching, counter-marching, re- favour, China, in the very near questioning, fighting unceasingly competition in February. Liu Kee-who obtained several distinctions at yuen won the Championship the recent examinations were those future, will be likened to the buil- and now living on the revenues
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The fullest possible use has been made of the small playing space at our disposal, but the lack of a large playing field is neutely felt, and, what is worse, we see no way out of the difficulty at present.
Scout Movement
are
Hong Kong, 24th May, 1929,—--:
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"VENEZIA-L"
in the curriculum. Those teachers! From Trieste, Vepize, Spalato, who have taught History and Geo- Brindisi, Suez, Port Said, Massaua, graphy to Chinese boys who
Karachi, Colombo, Penang & Singa- weak in English know how very dif- pore. ficult the task is. We allowed His- tory to lie fallow for several years in our college, and the result was
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ing pot of Satan. And the hope desperately needed by the Gov. [from Kwok Fung-sin, who had held who offered from nine to twelve for the above before FRIDAY,]
the honours for two successive sections, and that these who fail 21st May, as it is proposed to for a unified Government will beernment, is retarding very much
the progress of this otherwise years; and So Han-shing was the ed were the so-called "specialists" close the list of subscribers on further removed.
runner-up. Drill and gymnastles who concentrated their attention on that date. great country.
The decision taken at the Nan-are made compulsory for the whole five or six. It may be argued that The "Machiavelli" of China
king Conference sounds very good college, because they help the boys the former might have obtained a higher percentage of marks and Chiang Kai-shek by virtue of on paper. The various Generale to keep healthy and fit. his political tactics, has been call-have agreed to recognise the teams competed with teams repre-ped a few sections, but we do not Our Volley-ball and basket-ball more distinctions if they had drop- ed by his enemies the "Machia- authority of a "Central Disband-senting other schools and colleges subscribe to that opinion. velli" of China. To what extent ment Committee" appointed by in Hong Kong and Canton. Irr The subjects taught in a school he can be held responsible for the Government. 'They also
summer when the weather became college are inter-related. Thei China being plunged again into agreed to the abolition of military hot for outdoor games, we had study of one usually helps the study civil warfare for his own gains dictatorship. The commission is launch picnics twice a week for of another. English naturally has Steamship, and personal aggrandisement need to pay the troops out of funds ap- bathing parties.
affinities with every other subject not be discussed here.
portioned by the Ministry of It was only a few months ago
Finance. They will form # that he and his associates at Nan- Chinese national standing army. king were working hard to win This decision, if it could only the confidence of the public. (It be carried through, would be a
CONSIGNEES of Carge, are hereby must be remembered that the sure step in the right direction,
informed that all Goods are being faith of many in Chiang Kai-shek | but, also, the first prerequisite for
landed at their risk into the Godowns was badly shaken after the North its solution is lacking. China hes Towards the end of the year Mr. a lowering of the standard of Eng of the Hong Kong and Kowloon ern expedition two years and a no money. Its credit at home E. Zimmern, one of our staff, or-ish in the higher classes.
Wharf
& Godown Company, Ltd., at half ago). They were working to and abroad is exhausted. Gen-ganized a troop of boy scouts. He Bible is literature: Geography
Kowloon, whence and/or from the bring about a unification of the erals themselves and their armies wanted only tan boys to start the related to Science; Science
wharves delivery may be obtained. various units into a centralised have wrecked the whole financial movement but more than forty vo- Mathematics; and it has been said unless notice to the contrary be given Optional Cargo will be forwarded Government. He and his hench machinery by levying dues and lunteered. Those who were that the best training in English is before 24th instant men enjoyed the blessings of the extorting contributions wherever lucky enough to be chosen are in given through Mathematics, espe- the Goods have left the Codown, and No claims will be admitted after populace while they were en- they have been in power.
real earnest about their training,cially Geometry, which needs all Goods remaining undelivered after gaged in this good work:
But,
Until all these adverse ele-and we expect them to be thorough-curacy of exposition and expression the 30th inst. will be subject to rent. even in this work for unification,ments have been removed, China's ly efficient before many months more than any other branch of A claims against the vessel must Chiang Kai-shek was alleged to be demand for the abolition of extra have passed. Scouting is very learning. Sir Arthur Quiller-bo presented to the undersigned on or paving his way to elevate his territoriality must fall on deafood for boys. It teaches them dis- Couch, Professor of English Litera-before the 9th June or they will not standing.
be recognized. cipline and the love of the open ture at Cambridge, has even gone All broken, chafed, and damaged country which brings freshness and so far as to say that the works of Goods are to be left in the Godowne, vigour into their lives and gives Euclid are Literature.
where they will be examined on the them energy for their work in the We recognise the necessity of 30th inst. at 10 a.m. by mir surveyors class-room.
I sincerely hope par-specialising at a University; but Mesars. Goddard & Douglas. ents and guardians will encourage premature specialisation produces
ed. their boys to join in the movement. a brain bulging out inordinately on
The Examinations
one side, and on the other cut flated by No school report is complete un-down, and mostly paralyte at that. less some reference is made to the | Our object is to provide our boys William Boyd and Elinor Fair, examinations. Though some people with wide culture, an inter- who will be remembered for their have from time to time advocated related scheme of knowledge which schools and cei-touches several spheres of activity, splendid work in "The Volga their abolition, Boatman" are together in aleges as well as universities know so that after leaving college they
interest in what isi thrilling romance of the sea, "The that they cannot to away with them may take an
their prestige, going on around them, for their Yankee Clipper," which will be without
in â social whole is screened at the Queen's Theatre Some colles in England (notably place
of King's College at Cambridge and part of the essence their on Sunday and Monday next.
To realize our object The period in which the story of New College at Oxford) long per- existence. "The Yankee Clipper" is laid is severed in the attempt, but they we need the co-operation of par- the glorious cra in maritime hisfound the result was not altogether ents tory when the clipper ship was happy, and in the end they con- should like to remind that "every
signed with custom. Examinations boy
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The So-Called Peace Paci
cars.
"YANKEE CLIPPER
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Chiang Kai-shek was gifted with keen foresight, and he lost. no time in formulating a scheme | CHALLENGE FROM FOOCHOW
to put Marshal Li Chai-sum away. To achieve his aim, Chiang worked like a Trojan. He pre- tended that he was in earnest to save the country from further warfare. The National Constitu- tion was adopted last year as a sort of peace pact among the vari- ous military and political units. The purpose Chiang had in mind was to divide the authority and power of the political elements of Kwangsi, Kwangtung and Peking.
TO BOSTON
A BRITISH WIN
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and guardians, whom we Then there came the military conference held in Nanking, to
attends three schools-the which Marshal Li was invited to
mistress of the sea. attend. The purpose of the con- difficulties that beset Thomas
Briefly, the story recoats the are a neccessary evil, and they have school of the home, the school a very respectable antiquity. In of the street, and the educational ference was ostensibly a further Winslow, a skip builder of Boston, our own country they used to be establishment itself. No matter step in the direction, of uninca- who mortgages everything he the gateway to officialdom, and they how good the last may be, no matter has to finance the building of a best plums in the British Civil Ser-influence may be nullified by the new type of sailing vessel, vice can be secured. We should school of the home and the school
His son, Captain clipper ship. Hal Winslow, sails "The Yankee not, however, be so much dazzled of the street."
by their importance as to worship Clipper" out of Boston on her maiden voyage.
tion and reconstruction.
tion
of Marshal Li
The whole scheme, however, culminated in the forceful deten- Chai-sum. This action alone on the part of Chiang seemed outrageous. He had solemnly guaranteed a safe conduct to Marshal Li before the latter left Canton, and when he arrived at Nanking he at unce lost his liberty. He was denounced as a traitor to China's cause, and Chiang conveniently forgot the safe conduct he had given to Mar-
shal Li.
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How Peace May Be Achieved
An understanding of the ad- verse elements in China makes
it easier to comprehend how dif- ficult it is for this country to work out her own salvation.
the
are still the means by which the how conscientious the teachers, its
Old Boys the fetish of results. The passing At the last University Congrega- ot examinations which is usually tion Mr. Lung Ting-tong, an old |
In Fauchow "The Yankee Clip the passport to a business or pro- boy, received his B.A. degree. We per" and "The Lord of the Isles. fessional career is not the end and congratulate him and wish him a British clipper, meet, which aim of education, whose function every success in life.
After a
We We make it a point to follow the
culminates in a challenge in a race is to produce good citizens. from Foochow to Boston, the win-ought to pursue knowledge for its careers of our old boys and to give ner to secure the tea trade in its own sake. Our fathers thought them whatever encouragement and entirety for its nation. thrilling race, in which Captain the majority of us do
more of wisdom and learning than assistance lie a our power. They
We are can rest assured that no matter in- Winslow is forced to battle not inclined to think of education in what line of life they may be, wel only with the typhoons of the terms of dollars and cents and for are, and always shall be, interested South Seas, but a mutiny, the Bri-get that there may be forms of edu to bear of them tish skipper sails "The Lord of cation less paying
and from them. the Isles" into
than
the To enable us to keep in constant Boston Harbour, commercial and yet better worth touch with all our past pupils, we the winner. The Captain of the paying for; nay, above computa- earnestly appeal to them all to join American vessel wins another tion in price. Socrates held that our Old Boys' Association and to prize, the hand and heart. of virtue is knowledge," Study, the take an abiding interest in their
Conclusion
To attain this end, China Jocelyn, the beautiful daughter of road to truth, is also the road to Alma Mater. needs, as I have pointed out be- Anthony Huntingdon, owner of virtue. fore, a good leader who with his the British clipper. Jocelyn has .country's interest at heart, would been kidnapped with her fiance, successes of the college at the last wished I had had occasion to say I am not going to dilate on the Before concluding my report I be, in the truest sense of the word, Richard, by Winslow, who has Matriculation and Local Examina something about gifts and, scholar-
patriot seeking ΠΟ self-fallen in love with Jocelyn and tions. Of the aggrandisement, but subordinat-knows that her fiance is a "rotat
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ing everything for the good of his ter." The latter reveals himself and country.
as a coward and a traitor.
At present there is much chaos, and only by steadfastly concerning herself habilitation work, can order be
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tion seven passed the Matriculation, allotted to our college I shall re one with honours; and nine were serve my remarks for some other awarded Senior Local Certificates. Altogether they obtained seven dia- It now remains for me to thank tinctions. We presented $5 can- didates for the Junior Local Exam-the refreshment, decoration, and ination and 48 passed, obtain entertainment committees for their ing among them 26 distinctions, good work; to thank every one who Fung Kwok-wa, our champion ath has helped to make this evening a lele, was one of those who passed access; and to tender to you, Dr. Ta'o, the sincere thanks of the staff and pupils of Wah Yan College for
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and that afternoon he had been with To-day at 5 p.m. "Keep Watch" encouragement. When we are the other members of the Playing will be shown before this film. satisfied, that a boy is attempt Fields Committee to inspect the The music accompaniment is ing too much, we never fail to ad- existing playing fields on the Hong plied through the courtesy of excellent, being in the capable vise him to concentrate on those Kong side. He expressed the view hands of Musical Director W. J. subjects in which he is mostly like that the provision of more playing HOB
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