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Wah Yan College Prize Day
Exams Criticised In Annual Report
APPEAL TO PARENTS FOR CO-OPERATION
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936
Įvisions, nor-entirely to the man-
ner
of its publication. Many {schools must have been gravely embarrassed by the launching of a far-reaching scheme of this kind; in the middle of the summer vaca- tion, when statis were scattered, and schools had already settled the details of their courses, book-lists, text-books and promotions for the coming year.
that |
The annual distribution of prizes of the Wah Yan College
"The general principle took place this morning when Mr. Li Sing Kin distributed the awards. A very interesting entertainment was provided by the school examinations should be or- pupils, including selections by the College orchestra, a Chinese anised, set and marked by school- play without words and The Trial of Antonio, adapted from masters is definitely sound. Though Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
The annual report, presented by the Rev. D. Donnelly, SJ deprecated by some as an unfor tunate but necessary evil, examina- gave a comprehensive review of the year's work, in the course of tions, if carried out On sound which he made reference to the School Certificate Examination lines, can be of great help in and made certain suggestions for alterations regarding the sub education. The new Certificate jects and the manner in which the examination is carried out. Examination is therefore wel-
Annual Report
colded.
A similar welcome would "The large influx of new boys be accorded to an examination at [of high quality this year was very the end of Class 3, which should In presenting his report, the gratifying. So many suitable canlar less stress on English and in-
didates applied, indeed. for
sist more on Chinese and general Prefect of Studies. Rev. D-Classes 3 and 4, that we were in-educational subjects. Donnelly. SJ., said:-
Very Reverend Father Rector,
the across
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This ex- duced to continue last year's amination should be open to all
2.3
felds. The through from Class 8 are
controlled, would
The characters of "Pan?" and “Lady," the homeless waits adopted and raised by Carrie (Gladys George) in "Valiant Is The Word For Carrie, due st the Queen's Theatre next Sunday, are played by Jackie Moran and Charlene Wratt, respectively..
FRANCO SOVIET PACT
DENUNCIATION DEMANDED
Paris, To-day-
A demand that the Franco- Soviet Pact be denounced was pass- ed unanimously by a huge meet-j ing of the French "Social" (Fan- cist) Party who also passed resolution that France should maintain the strictest neutrality regarding Spain and to turn her efforts to the reconstruction of the Stress Front and the Franco- Italian rapproachment-Reuter.
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Three preliminary round bouts in the China Fleet Open Boxing Championships were decided this įafternoon at the China Fleet Club Rev. Fathers. Ladies and Gentle/Class 3D., and to open a new divi-[the schools of the Colony without sion tends to put a premium
01 Theatre. They were:- men; "It is a thought beloved of/sion of Class 4. 4D. From the exception. It would be the goal bad teaching. In this college. 13) Welterweights: "A" McCam (8th poets and sages that growth, the academic point of view however, of many of the smaller schools in periods per week are allotted to](D/F) knocked out
C.P.0. Bing im most amazing phenomenon in na-it is highly desirable that boys he Hong Kong, and, if efficiently car scientific and mathematical sub-| (Medway) 'in the second round. ture. is hidden and unobtrusive.sent to us, not in Classes 3 and 4. ried out and
jects in Class 2; and more can- Lightweights: A B.. Wood, (Her The sower goes forth to sow his but in the lower classes, if possi-raise the standard of such schools.not be allotted Now clearly, un-imes) beat Sto. Frost. (8th D/F} [on] ***
The reason is and be a guide to parents in the der this provision, optional sub-painta seed, and having sown it. goes his ble in Class S.
mit midi clear. We have found by long selection of schools for the tone jects are perfectly useless for ex D/F) best A. B. Bess (Hermes) on way: and the seed
general dren. No pupil should be allowed amination purposes. If one wish- pushes upward, steadily, secretly, experience that till the golden flush of harvest rule, our own boys who go right to sit for a higher examination ed to use these 13 periods to the
better until he had passed the Class 3 spreads
best advantage for examination. The s. Expura left Singapore schoolboy wends his way day after than those who join later; their test.
results, one would promptly cut out for this port last Saturday at 13) Amendment Suggested day to the class-room; no human work is neater. they are more ac-
all alternative subjects, and devote p.m., and is expected to arrive eye can detect the living processes/curate; more orderly, more accus-
"That there would be adminis-the whole time to, say. Arithmetic, here on Thursday at 7 am She is of growth within his frame: vet tomed to discipline and · hard
that were done, it is practically mails. as the years pass, the fingers that work. Many boys come to us in 'trative difficulties in the way of reometry and Chemistry only. Kcarrying the outward English: grasp his basket change, silently. Classes 3 and 4, who in the end such an examination is obvious: certain that all the boys whom we but if they could be overcome, have in Class 2 would pass with quietly, from the little fingers of never reach Class 1: and in many they are being overcome in the childhood to the strong hand of cases one cannot but feel that case of Class 2, it would be an ease in Group 3. But such a course Sun: Ngxi Ping Kiang
had we had them from the begin for the benefit of education in the would be a mere parody of a "ma-
Class 6A Fung Shu Shit; Yee Shin |thematical and scientific “Such, too, is the story of the ning. they might easily have pass Colony.
Wah; Taang How Leung. grOUP. Class 6B Lee Lan- Chang; life and growth of a school. Asled Matriculation.
We value the education of the pa-Ying Yin, Kar Kang Por.
Cham For the boys') One provision of the new School
{ week after week passes, and the sake. therefore, we appeal to Leaving Certificate
pils entrusted to our care more examination.
Class 6C Tam Koo Chnen; Woo monotonous. humdrum. precious parents who intend to entrust
than examination results; and be-Yik Chuen; Kwan Nim Kai. however, runs so counter to the work goes on, one sees day by day their sons to us, to send their boys general theory of education
cause of that, because we endeav-i
Class ZA Ho Sai Ming: Lau Shing and little of change or of improvement to Wah Yan as early as possible.
to the universal practice elsewhere, our to give them a fuller and more Cham; Wong Shui Chuen
Class TE Lai Shun Chee; Tsim Sui Yet the life and growth are there, "The school, this year, a5 last that one can only conclude that adequate course in Science
and Kee: Lo Wing Chenk strong, pulsating, fruitful: and
year, is
Mathematics, both they and we are full: there are hardly it was inserted inadvertently. If when one looks backward from half-a-dozen vacant places in all so, it should be deleted quietly and penalized. some vantage point over a longer our
The without delay. If not so, then a
An Important Point twenty-three classes. period of school activity, it is easy average attendance · has. again, justification of its insertion should "The point raised is one which to see and to appreciate the re- been amazingly good, over 96 per be given.
affects all boys entering for the sults achieved.
cent for the year; at least one The provision relates to option. examination this year. It is an "Such a rantage-point is this class, 3à, bas not had a single ab-al subjects, and reads (General important one, and one which could Annual Report of the Prefect of sentee for over a month at a time, Regulations, no. 6):-"In so far and should be rectified There is
youth.
Studies. It is meant to provide at and many other classes were little as a subject may, be taken alterno question, of altering or in any
+
inferior.
Brilliant Boy's Death
or
didate must elect in advance (Lè.
EX-
Class 8A To Che Wai; Lai Chan; Kwan; Chan Kai Tong
Class 8B Leung Kwok, Wing; Ng Sun Cheong: Yam Wah Fuk.
Class 8C Fok Took Fai; Paul Chan; Peter Tse-
Scholarships
Class 2. Wong Tak San Class 3. Sin Kah Sun Class 4 Wong Chin Wah Clase 3. Sin lán Lan Class 6. Fung Sun Shit Class 7. Wong Shui Chaen Class 8 L Chan Kwan.
Special Prizes
English Debate: -- Gold Medal:
Wong
once a summary of the work done!
way disturbing the courses or ar- natively under an obligatory during the year that has passed,
under the optional group, the Can-rangements for the coming and a statement of our hopes and
azrination. All that is necessary aspirations for the year to come. "in the School Certificate exon the application for admission to is to delete one paragraph of the
"Our last Prize Day, the most amination held last June, the Wah Examination) and must abide by General Regulations, a equiparat- Religious Knowledges-Gold Medal; ambitious and successful in the Yan results were most satisfac-his decision" That is to say, that is, for this year at least, obliga-Yeung Se chung. history of the school, was held on tory. Forty-one candidates were a candidate, when entering months tory and optional subjects. That December 21, 1935, in the Queen's presented, of whom 27 passed, one before for this examination, must this paragraph will be changed and Keg Sze-chung, Silver Medal: John Theatre. The theatre was packed of them with Honours and Dis-declare which of his subjects are speedily is inevitable; but it would Mandarin Debate: — Gold Medals to overdowing, and the large austinctions in no less than five sub-to be regarded as obligatory and be a pity if it were left as an Wong Wing-kit, Silver Medal: Taui dience followed with keen interest jects, English, Algebra, Geome-which as optional; and the option unhappy legacy for some future Kah-cheng the musical and dramatic items try, Trigonometry,
Improvement in English Debate: and Biblical al subjects promptly cease to be Board. It is of vital importance provided. A Chinese and an Eng Knowledge.
Ratu Khatrakul; 2, Albert Hui of the smallest use to him in his to the boys of this year.
Shin Chem. lish play were presented, the later "This candidate, Yeung Szejexamination.I
It remains for me merely to con-
Improvement in Mandarin Debate: an adaptation of Shakespeare's Chung, was one of the most br: "This regulation affects only gratulate all the boys on the ex-1, Cheung Yan-lin; 2, Wa Chin-sti Julius Caesar; both plays were exliant
cellent spirit of industry boys who ever passed three Groups; and în practice, it
crease
Nine Hundred Boys
intention
on
A
proves to the least observant that, in the schoolroom at least, East
Prize List
cellently acted and produced. The throngh Wah Yan. In this examin-will, broadly speaking, affect one and friendliness which reigns in **** prizes were given away by the ation, he was second in the whole Group only, Group 3, the Science the school at present; a spirit which Director of Education. Mr. G. E. Colony, and was chosen for a Gov-and Mathematics group. Sayer.
ernment Scholarship. Before he "Now, let.us.consider for a mo- could enjoy the fruits of his ment this Group 3. To pass in it, and West can meet in fullest sym- The College now conuts an en-triumph, however, death claimed a boy must pass in three subpathy and understanding." rolment of just 900; a slight in-him for its own. A simple appen-¡jecta:--a Science "subject, a Mathe-
Mr. Li the gave away the certi- | last year's figures dix operation was followed with matical subject, and Arithmetic ficates and prizes: I was not our original tragie suddenness by general sep-Optional subjects may, however,
School Leaving Examination, 1936 *0 increase ourticaemia, and within six hours of be presented to the number of (Honours, Matriculation, and Gov- numbers this year; indeed, by cut-entering hospital, he was dead.three; and de facto, all our boys ernment Scholarship) Yeang Sze ting out two classes, 1B and 2C, Few boys have ever won to such who go for this examination next Chung, with distinctions in English, we had made provision for a sual-z degree the affection and esteem year will present, not three scien- Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and ler school. The increase is due to of masters and fellow-pupils alike. tific and mathematical subjects, Biblical Knowledge two factors, both somewhat
Matriculation expected: first, the big demand for verently, so fit for Heaven.
Few seemed, if one may say it re- but siz. Let us take now, as an
Chang Chung Tim, Cheng Yin, May example, the case of two boys of the newly-formed he rest in peace! * admission to
Chung Wah Leung, Albert Hui Shin equal merit, each of whom enters Cham, Li Tat Keung, Wong Wing Commercial classes, and second,
"Wah Yan this year was second for the same subjects in the com- Kit, Yang Terk Foh, Joseph A. Then, the excellent quality of the new
in the Colony in the School Certi-ing examination, and each of whom with Distinction in Biblical Know- boys applying for admission.
Fung "The Commercial classes, which feste Examination in the number gets exactly the same marks in ledge, Ynen Ging
School Leaving Certificate. each subject. They both enter for were started last January with the which entered 51 candidates, beat Algebra, Geometry. Trigonometry: Kwan Lam. Choy Shing Pans Chu passes only King's College, physics, Chemistry, Arithmetic, Arithmetic; Cheong Fak Leong, Chik Chan Fo Lan, with Distinction in seem definitely very promising. Our total of 27.
they both pass with honours, any Chee Sze, Ko Se Kan, Kwok Chang
consent of the Board of Education,
at a Commercial
career.
of
The boys admitted to the Com- "In sport, too, the fine record of get distinctions in Physics, Arith- Wo, Lam Po Bon, Lee Hoy Chan, mercial side this year were ClassPrevious years was maintained. In metic, Algebra, and Geometry, and Leung Kwong Chur, Lim Gek Pok 3 boys, who were aiming definitely Volleyball, our Senior team won fail in Chemistry and Trigonome Albert Lim Kim Teck, Pun ilin Ying, These the championship of the Hong try. The first boy, who was shrewd Distinction in Algebra, Tang boys are not, of course, our most Kong schools. In basketball, we ough to make Physics, Arithme Shing Cheong, Wong King: Fong. Chan, Tong: Ka Kin, Mark Tsui brilliant scholars, though there are won the Hong Kong Junior Men's tic and Algebra his obligatory sub- Wong Sik Bing a number of very clever boys League. In athletics, we were selects, passes with three distinc Glass 23 Wong Tak Sun, David amongst them. But we do feel cond to St. Joseph's in the Inter- tions in Group 3. the second boy, Tati: Laim Kim Keang, that these boys are learning a great school Sports, and first in the who had the ill-fuck to choose Class 23-Shit Leung Hang, Chan deal in the Commercial classes; Combined, Land and Water Sports Arithmetic, Chemistry and Tri- Man
Hang Kwank Class: 20 to Poll Yiu; "Lai Yew quite as much as they are capable open to Chinese schools. This gonometr, as his Group 3 subjects, Chow Ng Kai Fal.- of absorbing. They are being term we won the championship at falls abjectly in this whole....... ex- Class 3A Sim Kab Sun, Chow Pat zamuinely educated along useful the inter-School Aquatic Sports, amination. Yet, notice, both hoys Hang, Tara The Tend lines. These classes provide for beating our old friends and ri-got ametly the saose marks in every boys who lack the inclination, the vals, St. Joseph's, by one point. talents, or the opportunity to go Certificate Fruscination. on for a profession but who are "One other matter of intere destined to be, none the less, high might be referred to here -TE ly valuable members of", socisty; the School Certificate Examination. they enable meh lads to complete for Class 2 boys, the details" (of their education, instead of throw which were published by the Four ing them, half-educated and in-of Education at the end of mature, upon, an over-crowded la-With the general princieles bour market – We feel that these deriying the new traminat Commercial classes do much good, will agree, though the and hope that we shall be per-al approval will not be accord mitted to continue them.
certain minar Astafa of its
Sect
“Injustice "Apparent.
* there is no need to labour the
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