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Sehont, and especially! Colony the School does not make” It an occasion for the presentation and 2. In 1993 we hope to make A decided advance in Science if we of prizes. The system of giving no prizes has been in vogue since can get the necessary equipment. 1919 and judging by the splendid In History an attempt is being made results, achieved it had had no to make boys take a widerin detrimental effect on either the sorast -› Books ~ such as Keat students work or player linge and, Frazer's Introduction to There was a good attendance of World History will be introduced parents and friends. The Rt. Into the Sebool in 1923. In Geog. 1 Rev. the Bishop of Victoria Pre-aphy great interest has been taken
sided and was supported by the
Director of Education (Han, Mr. in Map Drawing. Several models E. Irving) and the Headmaster have been put up. • In Drawing, (Rev. W. T. Featherstone). Among several drawings done in school and others present were the Hen. Mr. mostly by boarders, have been 3. H. Kemp, K.C. Rev. V. II. framed and sow help to decorate Copley Moyle, Rev. J. T. Holman certain classrooms. The Writing and Mr. N. Teesdale Mackintosh. {done by Englith boys and local The meeting having opened boys of mixed parentage is bad. with a verne of the Natiouni An- An attempt has been made to im- them, the Bishop apologised for prove the way in which boys keep the absence of Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, whe regretted his their exercise books and a better book with a strong cover, lins been Inability to be present.
provided. In Reading, the great faults are (1) reading too quickly and (2) mispronunciation-alten through slackness and lack of know. to control the ledge as to huw
In 1923 a few simple vocal organs. vocal exercises will be introduced.
Religious Instruction.”
Five minute speeches on School Routine and Discipline, Games and the Amoy Chinese, Chinese Studies, and School History were delivered by-Philip' Modney, the Senior Pre- fect for 1922, Eric Wong Ching Tung, the 8th School Prefect for 1022 and Senior Prefert for 1923.
As
Yuen Kwok Huen, the Seechd The Headmaster continues: Prefect for 1923, and William this is a Church School, scripture Younpsave, the third Prefect, the
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flew. It is well to remember this sation and this is dus very large The Headmaster' continues: The Discipline is generally ex- when comparing the results of ly, I maintain, to cheap education.
--The Orphanage. (2) at home. Moreover, This School was originally tellent, but it is bad in Chinese schools abroad with the results of lessons. Certain boys should pay schools
.
to try and improve the teaching, of seripture and of religion throngh- The Hon. Mr. Irving made a
We want modern short spreek. He engratulated Wit out the School. liam Younganye upon his remark-boks on the bible for all classes, able success.
As the Headmaster and a simple text book on compar. had said, that was a very novel alive religion for the senior classes. prizegiving in that they did not In this subject a library would be vive any prizes. Personally he very useful: senior boys could be thought it was an excellent idea. encouraged to read select books ou He (the speaker) ventured in his Annual report a year or two ago to point out that prizes were in many cases very much overdone in Hongkong and he instanced a case that came to his nottee of girl winning a $50 cup for a day and spoon race. If she had work films, ed hard and won her form prize is due to what I call the "blind a little more attention to details schools at home have large endow founded as an orphanage for der
the small annual Government children. Some people seem their clothes, exercise books, etc.;
have get the impression the he uopoxed she would have got a teaching" of the past. Religion is, the way in which they keep meats; we have none apart from stitute English and Eurasian 3s. 6d. copy of "Little Folks." The al subject: h which there should be all these small things count very Grant.
Our Boarders' Fees are the since I became Headmaster. Director of Education sympathis-uo limits to enquiry and in which much in discipline. ed with the Headmaster in the reasou and faith should grow to.
We have developed the Prefect highest charged at Schools in School and since School Fees desire for better science nnnaratus
Hongkong but if first class men been increased, it is not carr) gether.
System and boys are now more "on from our Universities and training out the purpose of its Founders. and concluded by wishing the
In 1922 there has been a large their honour" In and out of School colleges are to continue to be at- The figures speak for them School ay successful a future as
In Games we have decided to tracted to work in the Far East selves. My policy has been it had enjoyed in the past. (Aprise in the average attendance,
mast receive adequate silmit more English and Eurasia plause).
which has been 330, about 50 or 60 join no Leagues or Associations; they A vote of thanks was proposed above the general annual average we are willing to play any school salaries and pensions and be able day boys at reduced foes becaus
in Friendly Matches. The League to work under favourable condi- there is no similar Church by Mr. Weng Kai Leung, the attendance. Increases in Classes 8u. System in not a good aystem for tions in the matter of board- England school to which they senior Chinese master, and carried 7a, and 98 are due, 1 think, to the Schools nor are the systems cfing accommodation, classrooms, go, and many of their parents
substitution of lady teachers for holding Sports for Prizes or In-grounds and equipment. Salaries not in a position to pay high fee The hymn "O God our help in Anglo Chinese teachers and to the ternational Contests for School have been increased but the There is a special subscription ages past," concluded the meet-improvement in our Chinese staff. Brys.
Boarding accommodation, etc., is list for this purpose. ing-
Mure boys have been refused en- In connection with Games and still bad and there are no pen: With regard to Chinese boys we do not admit them at reduce trance in 1922 than in any previous Work we are gradually developing sions.
the House Systern; our aim is to All these improvements ocat fear because we have other year 1918-1921. More accommoda. tion has been made for boarders, get as many boys as possible to money: if people want them, they for Chinese with lower fees
do something for their House and must be willing to pay for them, secondly there is no
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Afterwards the visitors partook
of tea and inspected the School and witnessed an exhibition of [physical drill in the playground.
We take the following from the
who numbered 110 in September
We
for the School.
Salaries and Fees,
and if they pay so much less than scription list for this purpos Headmaster's Report:
1922, 10 more than in any previous.
is paid at home and if we have no Parents and scholars This is the Fifty-fourth Annual year. We refused admission to 27
In 1914 the Salaries were not endowments, qui results must not Report of this School. Tu-day we boarders in September 1922.
satisfactory and in the history of be unfavourably compared with well to remember that it doen call this occasion a Speech Day, have more boarders from outside the school only two masters have schools in England:
2. encourage, the authorities not a Prize Giving; certain boys Hongkong than proviously.
stayed for any length of time. In the past education in Hong-school to admit boys free The following figures as to nation. Since 1914 salaries have been in- kong and the Far East has been reduced-foen if they are extrava aro to make speeches upon various subjects and there are no prizes.alities and places are interesting-creased considerably and more too cheap; wealthy people, and in big or small ways.
03 European teachers are employed in people with moderate means have and relations of boy Nationalities-253 'Chinese, We have had on trial the system of giving no prizes since 1919, when mixed 10 Portugese, 8 English, the lower classes. In 1914, our been receiving education too to possess motor cyclon thore were no prizes at the Annual Indian. 2 Greek, 1 Dutch, I Japan- total salaries for European teach cheaply. For example I could to buy the best of Swimming Sports: in 1921 we had ese, 1 Korean, 1 Russian, 1 Siamese. ers amounted to $21,700, in 1922 mention three schools in the Far tennis racquets and
they amounted to $33,700, There] East (not in Hongkong) where no prizes at our Athletic Sports Boardera came from the following has also been an increase in main-wealthy boys recaiva board, quam best seats at theatres and in January, 1992, partly owing places-Hongkong 27, Amoy 18, tenance, food, etc. In addition we ers and education with Europeanors a
te the change in the Schools and Formosa 12, Manila 9, Canton 9, maintain that we are giving a bet-teachers in the higher classes for duced fees. the University's year and partlyHanoi 4, Swatow 4, Penang, 2, tur return for fees paid in the $150, $120 and $110 per annum a knowledge of cases because we wanted to discourage Macao 1, Bangkok 1, Shanghai 1. improvement in equipmant, focd, respectively And then we connection the idea of working for prizes, we Singapore 1, Tokyo 1, Tientsin 1, etc., and in the facilitica for games, wonder at the product youths similar institution
whose characters and lives have becomea had no Prize Giving or Speech Day. Hoihow 1, Kongmoon 1, Sandakan drill, etc
In future this annual event will be 1, Korea 1. No less than 37 of the' Considering the fact that the been ruined by a cheap education, times called a Speech Day. We do not above are Amoy Chinese from Diocesan Boys' School is one of who are neither Eastern nor West cases.
At the most successful representa- ern, and who have neither the dis- want it to be a long wearisoms Amoy, Formosa and Manila. affair with long speeches and reports, the end of the year nine Japanese tives of British education in the cipline of their own manners and Far East, our fees are remarkably customs nor that of Western civili which weary adults and scholars applied for admission.
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