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Hong Kong, Saturday, March 7, 1931.
ADVERSARIA. "Without fear, favour or malice."
He came, We Discover he.. having
a Writer. cone,
Nga: Father, he said I was old-fashioned. Was I not educat- ed at the College of Hong Kong? If you cut off his head I will dance for you.
Li: Such things, my daughter!
But I seem to have heard those words before. (Beckons to a ser- vant).
Servant: Master?
Li: This is a rogue; he will noti leave us.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931.
COLLEGE LIFE IN
JAPAN.
Young and Ambitious Students.
SOCIAL CLUBS.
The college life of the students of the Tokyo Imperial University be- at the time when the Kins beautiful cherry blossoms blouri the Yazol in campus
Hill
on
the on
has been customaily held for two auccessive days in Arly May is tho time-honoured socal function of the Tokyo Impetal University. On the first day of the meeting,
which is open to the general public, It shows every npiration and cecret of the differet colleges in the University
The campus. Medical students ubally exhibit dreadful materials then out from the anatomical rooms the Law stu deals show the insidescenes in the court-ooms, while morgues and engincers expose myseries of ma- chine-shops. On its second day
Servant: It is perfectly clear. (Draws his sword and cuts off Loo's head at one blow).
Li: Aha! there goes the prater fragrantly of parables.
The figures of the happy, the members of the faulty of the men d women Ngan: But listen to the music. April.
connected with the Insttution are rolling towards the river. Soon it men, wearing the square caps and Invited to enjoy a day of the ac- His eyes are singing. His head is joyous, youthful, energetic fresh- University and
the uniform of bronze will reach the sea and the fishes donning
buttons, with their eyes burn- will dance.
Li: And now you must danceing with the enthusiasm for acing there comes the season or the athletic sports. The boat rae be- my daughter.
Ngan: Pooh! I am too tired. Li: (petulantly) You promised you would. You are a deceitful little hussy. I believe you liked
that man!
It will
ademic family association.
Following the Get-Togethr meet-
ademic life, appear in the univer- sity in great number. They are
perial University and the Koto all young and ambitious chaps with tween the crews of the Toky. Im
more than twenty
Imperial University, popularly e- their ages not
After listening years In general. to the speeches delivered by the garded as the intercollegiate bot Ngan. He said my eyes had a president of the University and the race between Oxford and Cam song which filled him with dean for students on the traditions bridge in Japan, is held at Sumida near Kyoto in turn. Then there hunger. It is possible to love a of the Institution or the freedom of River in Tokyo or at the Biwa Lako raan like that. It was cruel of study at the solemnly held convoca-
tion, the new students have become ones the baseball league wars be tween the aix conference univer you to cut off his head.
No matter sities in Tokyo. Li: (in disgust). Well I never!full-fledged college men. Servant: If I may be allowed to not be very long before they begin to talk on the question in connec say so, Tut, Tut!
Li: Which merely means, base tion with the attitudes and scholar one, "Can one ever understand a ship of their professors and pre- woman?" (They go indoors to decessors.
The
students of science and supper).
engineering will be led laboratories, machine-shops, or the of law power houses, while those and literature introduced to their II.M.S. Kent leaves for Home at professors who have been occupying
News in Brief.
10.30 a.m. to-morrow.
Rovised parcel post rates appear In the Government Gazette.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday wns 60 degrees. The
Willowland." As it is certain to at 4 p.m. become famous, readers are ad
this masterpiece "Salome in humidity was 95 at 10 a.m. and 90
vised to buy every copy of to- The name of Mrs. Edith Mary | day's China Mail they can Jay Harmon, Luna Building, Kimberley hands on, as this edition may be Road, Kowloon, has been added to worth 35,000 (a low estimate) in the Register of Chemists and five years' time.
Druggists.
The setting is on a hill-top on the outskirts of a village in Honan
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Eliot, province, in the willow garden of G.C.M.G., P.C., C.B., M.A., D.
to the
whose ground the ball game is
taken long before the play starts. staged, all the seats are usually
When the Summer vacation ig started, the skiists and the moun-
the pre- parations for their activities. Tho has its Tokyo University, which varsity Summer camp at the foot of the beautiful Fuji, gives every facility to the college mountaineers. Swimmers Club,
tain climbers commence
The Swimmers' Club has its
various rooms of research worke surrounded by numerous books, magazines and scholarly papers. swimming station at the Suruga The medical students go out for purchasing the stethoscopes and Bay, which is only about five hours other necessary
by rail from Tokyo, while tho equipments for
Oratorical and Debating Club their study, and agricultural atu- dents visit different stables and gives lectures and speeches at the different places throughout the Empire during the Summer vaca- tion.
cow-houses to get the first view of the horses and cows.
The Summer vacation for A
period of two months in Japan's col- leges and universities are regarded by the students as the happiest and jolliest days in their lives. The men who drilled themselves under
Eight College Clubs. Eight colleges of the Tokyo Im- perial University have their own clubs, such as the Midori-kai for the Law College, Tetsumon Club for the Medical College, and other clubs with different names attached to Li Binge-nan, a former mandarin Litt, formerly British Ambassador the rest of the colleges, all of which the heated sun return to the univer-
hold welcome reception for the new turned bandit for convenience. to Japan (1919-1926) is passing comers at the beginning of the ac- He corresponds with Herod. The through Hong Kong on the N.Y.Kademic year. They hold excursions other characters are Ngan, his liner. Hakone Maru, daughter, who was educated in Home. Hong Kong; and Loo Fat-tum, the Chinese Saint John. Now proceed.
The Play.
sity in early September to resume their academic life again.
At this time the annual fall games of the baseball League will
on his way and picnics later with the purpose At yesterday's meeting of the other among the members of their legiato regatta by the ten univer-
of getting acquainted with each be started by the conference of six universities while the intercol-
own clubs. The welcome receptions Sanitary Board, it was decided to
River. It should be noticed that it refuse an application for the in- have usually been carried out by the sities will be staged on the Sumida Club pre- Tennis, Archery, Riding Clubs of
(Loo cr088C5 the river by a carved stallation of two native type water/Clubs with pep and enthusiasm, 3 is athletic week for the Baseball,
Li).
bridge and enters the garden of Los: When I look into your eyes I hear a song which fills me
At the Kowloon Magistracy with hunger; like the beggar flute-player of Ping-No, who yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hamilton beside the clubs of different col wanted to crunch the edge of the recorded further evidence in the leges, to which any student can be moon with his immortal teeth, be case in which Martia Corren (26) come a member, which are as fol- cause it had stolen his tune and a Filipino student, is charged with the murder of John Harrison, 4 refused to send it back.
closets at 64, Bonham Strand West,pecially the Tetsumon on the ground that it would be consents every year most Interesting both Tokyo and Kyoto Universities.
of and pageants
programmes comical entertainments. There aro travention of the law to accede.
twenty-one student organizations,
Ngan: What is the song that sing with my eyes, O flatterer of
the ragged coat?
I
plumber on the Empress of Russia. In the course of evidence, alleged
admissions of prisoner's guilt were
made. His Worship adjourned the Loo: It is like the song of my village stream, which wooed the hearing to Monday morning. earth and made it bare water
lows:
All the intercollegiate games will be fought this time between the two great institutions of learning in Japan. Competing with the athletic activities of the students,
members of the Oratorical and De- The Central Club, Rowing Club, bating Club of the university hold week in September, which brings Track and Field Club, Fencing their meetings during the first Tennis Club. Swimmers' Club.
body of the Tokyo Imperial Univer- Club, Ju-jitsu Club, Archers' Club, the whole activities of the student- Sklist and Mountain Climbers' Club,sity to their climax. The football- Baseball Club, Rugby Football Club, era, skaters, skiists and mountain Association Football Club, Riders'
climbers stage their activities dur-
lilies. It can be heard, also, by ROUND THE CINEMA S Club, Rifle Club, Skating Club, ing the Winter senson.
dropping an amulet of jade down the two thousand stairs.
"ROUGH ROMANCE” DRAMA OF OUTDOORS.
Poetical Romance.
Hongo-ward Tokyo are full of bock stores and resturants which, centering around the Tokyo Imperial University, have been producing the specific atmosphere of student's quarters, filled with the youthful dreams and
Oratorical and Debating Club, Literary nad Arts Club, Music The Atreets in Club, Journalists' Club, Mutual Ngan: It is a strange beggar
Aid Society and the Hockey Club. He that has come to our house.
Mutual Aid Society. he was does not ask for rice, but bestows FIRST SCREENING TO-MORROW All of these are the social and and so on,
athletic clubs of the students who in the inimitable manner of Miss soothing words on the virgin who
A new kind of "party" comes to organised themselves for their Gertrude Stein, who gets paid for is ugly and alone.
Loo: Is the gnarled root ugly in the screen in Rough Romance," tastes and hobbies, which are plae- poetical romance, nonchalantly re- writing that kind of tripe; whereas, if I wrote like that for age? or in youth, the pox-pitted Fox Movietone all talking drama fed under the direction and supervi- moved from the worries and anxie- sion of the presidents of the re-ties in the actual world of the paper the Editor would throw face of the moon? It is not rice of the great outdoors.
crave, but the music which is The films which have depicted spective organisations. The Mutual humanity. The brilliant evening and a brick at me. (Excuse me for
"wild" parties, tes parties, block Society, organised in the year 1928, night, daring the course of which never played. one moment, while I put this pre-
Ngan: My father is powerful parties, yachting parties-in fact, right after the great earthquake students danced themselves in end- amble on the shelf. Thank you!)
almost every conceivable form of disaster,.with the purpose of less turn, will be the immortal Now, where was I? Ah, he bad and can cut off your head.
Loo: It would immortalise the party-had never, heretofore, pre-loving those suffering students golden haze that decorates, their come. I remember. Yes, and to knife. And this head, with its sented what is undoubtedly one of from the lack of necessary funds, college life. The Tokyo Imperial look at him on the surface you to brown eyes that have seen the roughest, most hilarious forms has been carrying out the work of University men in their black unf would think him an ordinary death at the bed and the board of "party"a lugging town "jam giving and finding them petty jobs. forms are to be seen in the Ginza
for four hundred moons, would boree.".
introducing rooming houses, ex Street, in the hell of Kabuki roll down to the river, there to The "Jamboree," according to tending every possible helping hand
Theatre, on the benches in the sing earth-music to the fishes. those fortunate enough. to witness to them, its running expenses being Japanese metrópolis, showing its
Ngon: No, he would hang its filming, is a sort of cross be paid out of the profits made human side of society. your head upon the peach tree;tween a crowd of cowboys whoop-by the Students' Dining Hall of the the hawks would peck out your ing it up in Red Gulch and the University. Moreover, there aro terrible eyes and skim the tissue battle of the Marne.
many scholastic societies made up he wasn't; see what I mean? of your lips, and drink your thin "Rough Romance," which was by the men who study the current You would pass him by in the blood; then would the twigs pierce directed by A. F. Erickson, Tea Ideas and ideale, social and political street, but you would remember the holes in your ears and there tures George O'Brien, Helen Chand him once you met him. Over a would be flowers where you once ler, Antonio Moreno and Noel
Francis. bowl of Sli-fush-ho he told me heard music.
man; one who
Guzzled his soup
And bit his nails..
Such piensure that,
When his moustaches droop
Into the bowl of nails.
He hears the Heaven's rat
Nibbling the gods' inlls
He was an ordinary man and
DANCE DISPLAY,
all about it.. the tears." Loo: You are very old-fashion- the hunger. the hurllations. cd. You speak like a decorative T'ching And at last he had wr.ten it. plate-pattern of the Yes; he produced a dirty manu-Dynasty. Know that the beggar script, plastered with egg stains Is the king to-day. Your father MISS CAPELL'S PUPILS' FINAL
PERFORMANCE. and coffee, and this he claimed to would be punished if he killed me.
be an authentic translation of the Ngan: Ah, ragged slanderer, At last night's performance by play by Hop Ah-long, the Chinese you seem to be a prophet of the Wilde who was shot in Honan re-new China. Can you be Eoo, the Miss Violet Capell and her pupils in cently for an interest in assas-holy rebel, of whom I heard talk the Theatre Royal, all the num sination that was active as well as in Nanking? academic. My friend, who return-
Lo: No less than he,
(L
ed to his home in Wagga recently, Ngon: Ssh! Speak no more there to help Mr. Scullin maut Here comes my father. the political destinies of Australia, enters). Informs me that the translation
is perfectly free. Following in the
L: Who is this man? Ngan: Acheggar, father, who steps of Professor Giles, he has seeks alms. accepted the Slamburne inter- Loo: Nay, but Loo, the healer pretation of the character "Ping" of the hungry.............
as "Pong," but, in the case of L Begone, lower than the
WS," he has usurped this char mud
acter as "Ho," meaning good. Nonn: Are you angry with him, The play, which should be acted father?
to the accompaniment of műted L: He is dangerous; he smell strings and dulcimers, is in of poverty.
fluenced without doubt by Wilde's. Loo: My mission is but to heal "Salome and for that reason I Li: Begone, eater of snake have taken the liberty of calling bowels!
LIQUOR & TOBACCO DUTIES, problems, arts and literature, the In accordance with the resolu- scientific research works and in- tions passed by the Legislative vestigations. Various religious Council on February 26. 1931, the organisations composed of the stu- Colonial Freasurer gives. notice the figure representing Average opening selling rates for the month of
dente having different creeds and faiths have existed on the Univer
members study Esperanto, Japan. Bity campus. Such clubs where their
that
the
ese poems, dramas, and other line February, 1931, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation' of literature and arts are organised for demand drafts on London. Is artistic Inclinations. The cluba by the students of literary and settled at 11.04. bers were well received. If some of aiming to make a deep study of the the bables lacked the finish of the Bocial question or more advanced pupils, they made opinions In Japan and abroad are body of the University and whose up in enthusiasm, especially in the very popular among the student Clown number.
the current
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mail" of March 7, 1921.3 It would be idle to try to mention meetings are attended by large
Get-Together Meeting. To-day's dollar is worth 2/2 5%, any special Item, as the whole pro-numbers, gramme was.carried through, with
The Get-Together meeting of the great success, as tertised by the unstinting applatise from the whole álversity students which audience, Many baskets of flowers and other gifts were showered upon
the pupils during the performance. two ladies for their services.
Owing to an oversight, the
4
At the V.R.C. on Monday night the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn was pre- sented with silver rose bowl mounted on a blackwood stand, to Before the show began, and mark his recent wedding. The names of Miss E. Savard Remedies during the Luterval, orchestral gift was made on behalf of the, Com- (planist), and Mr. E., J, R.Mit selections were supplied by the mittee of the Club by Mr. W. Logan, shell were omitted from the pro- Anderson Music Company, by who referred to, the deep interest gramme in the list of helpers, means of a Philips 50 Watt gramo Mr.Severn: had always?: shown in
the VRO Miss Capell destres to thank these phone amplifier..