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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
FOUNDATION OF NEW
BUILDING LAID.
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and they hoped in course of time to have separate bathing-huts for
Daily regularity repays you the College, and even a pavi- llon which ho had previously men. 100% in the way of health and ef-, tioned alsowhere (laughter) ficiency, and this can be ensured
In conclusion, Sir Henry kald by the occasional use, when neces the Council intended to establish sary, of Pinkettes, the gentle an institution with a high stand-little liver and intestinal regula ard not only of education but of tors. By banishing the Public service for the good of.
cause of sick headaches, bilious at: others (Applause),
tacks, liverishness, Ill-smelling Dr. Tso's Address. Dr. S. W. Tao, LL.D., J.P., ad- breath and pimply skin Pinkettes dressed the gathering, saying, in keep you in the pink" of condl tion. Chemists everywhere soll part:
As one of the founders of St. them, or post free, at 60 cents the Stephen's College and on behalf vial, from The Dr. Williams' Medi of the students and their parents, cine Co., 60, Kianggo Road, Shang-
extend to your Excellency our hal most hearty welcome and thanks His Excellency arrived at the for coming here to-day to lay the appointed time, being accompanied foundation stone of this new Col- by Lady Clementi, Captain A. J. Llege Bullding.
The great interests your, Excel- Whyte and Captain G. Perfect"
to His Excellency); lency has taken in the education (A.D.C's. Major General C.. C. Luard and of the Chinese here and the strong other distinguished officials. The support and encouragement you
Speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the new St. Stephen's College Building at Stanley, yesterday, afternoon, His Excellency the Governor said that It marked the beginning of a new era in educational enterprise in the Colony, In that they were attemting no less than to found here a public school after the model of those in the United Kingdom,
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party were met on arrival by mem-
bera of the Collage Council and Building Committee and ushered to their seats..
Chairman's Address, The Hon, Sir Honry Pollock, K.C., who is Chalman of the Building Committee, in his addrces of welcome to His Excellency, ex- pressed thanks to His Excellency for attending the ceremony, his time being very fully occupied in view of his coming absence on leave from the Colony. Ha used the, word leave advisedly because it was much to be feared that He Excellency's well known devotion to the welfare of the Colony and its interests was likely to curtail considerably his time for rest and leisure in the Homeland.
have given to the establishment o
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a Chinese School at the Hongkong University, and your exhortation —
This spirit, courage, or deter-" to Chinese to learn Chinese litera- ture and classles, have won for mination cannot be acquired in you, Sir, the inestimable admira- the class rooms but on the playing tion, respect and gratitude not fields where, by co-operation and only of the Chinese here but also team work, defeat often turns into of all patriotic men in China. victory while selfishness and con- ceit cannot find a footing. 'It is said that "the Battle of Waterlou was won on the playing fields of Eton" which shows what great value is set on the training of a public school in England.
The public-school system has now come to China and it is going to stay. Hitherto, Chinese have been accustomed to educate their children at their own home where they can have more supervision and control over their character and conduct, and less danger of bad association and contamination. This method of education was only possible in days of old when one had nothing more to learn than his own language and literature, and the object of education was to pass the old form-of-etate-examing
A Great Responsibility.
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With the Chinese similar idene of manhood are taught in their books. If one would go carefully into the Chinese classics he would find them all there. But the lack of a practical training to put their - Sir. Henry also expressed his
ideas into execution renders the thanks to Lady Cloment and the
teaching almost a dead letter. It other guests for thel: presence and
is this very spirit of practical ac- tion that we hope to see in our said he also took the opportunitytion in China
youths, so that, they may, on attain- of expressing the great gratituie
But when social Intercourse being such spirit, show to the world of the College Council and the Building Fund Committee to thetween men of all nations becomes what the old Chinese traditiona donors to the Building Fund for more and more extensive, the need and civilization really are, Government Thanked, their
contributions of acquiring a knowledge of generous
We thank the Government hear- amounting. with interest, to a eum modern selence, foreign languages,
and the ideals of other nations be-tily for granting this magnificent of $360,000,
He also expressed his apprecia- comes imperative. Parents If they site for the development of the tion of the effective labours of the want to keep up with the times School and your Excellency for Old Boys' Committee and the must give their children the bene-giving all the facilities and en- students of St. Stephen's in help. At of a public school education couragement which enable
Building Committee to. proceed ing in connexion with the sum and training. raised. He added that the gene. However, the fear of some par- with the Building Scheme. We are Trosity of the Government in placents that their children may get most honoured by your Excellen-y's ing nearly 25 acres of land at the into bad company when associat-performing the laying of the Foun disposal of the Council of the ing with a large number of boys dation, Stone, We feel surfe that College was very much appreciated in a public school still remains, under your auspices the success of and that such generosity was cal. and itt behoves, therefore, the St. Stephen's is assured.—(Ap-i culated to spur the Council on to mastera, who have the charge and plauso). establish an educational Institu-responsibility of boys, to allay tion which would be in every res-this fear by keeping, strict disci- pect a credit to the Colony. pline in school; by associating themselves closely with the boys In fact, he added, the Council in their work and play; and by and the Buding Committee worekeeping them so much employed in sion. Then accepting i allver reaching forward to the erection useful work that they can have trowel and blackwood mallet from no time to get into mischief. the Building Committec, His Ex- of an extra hostel in addition to that of which His Excellency was These alma the Boarding School cellency proceeded to perform the about to lay the foundation stone, system only can effectively achieve. ceremony of laying the foundation St. Stephen's is now entering on stone of the New building, saying Such an extension was estimated
as he did so: I declare this stanc well and truly laid.
An E Hostel
His Excellency was presented: by Yeung Sze-keung, the Senior Prefect, with a scroll of Chinese poems composed by students of the College in honour of the ocen,
Lo cost about $150,000, being ap-its second stage of development, parently warranted by the pros-It is the first tinie the School has
The inscription on the stone pective number of b. arders al-a building of its own, with ample ready in view. He thought it ground for playing fields and for reads as follows:-"To the Glory would be more economical to start future development. It is fitting of God this stone is laid by H.E. Governor of Hongkong. a new one now before the old one occasion at this day's ceremony Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., LL.D... was finished while the building that I should re-state and empha-M.A. plant was still on the spot. size the hopes and expectations of April 27, 1928,
His Excellency, was assisted by Sir Henry also said that with the Founders 25 years ago; how- the addition of these two hostels ever much I may fail in my ability Mr. L. G. Bird, representing the architects, Messrs. Palmer and which would accommodate 120 to express them adequately.
Formation of Character. Turner and by Mr. Lam Woo the boys the Council hoped in the course of the next few years to
Generally speaking, the object contractor. build on the site two more hostels No. 813, Top Floor, Wyndham St so as to provide accommodation for 250 boarders, a communal dining Hongkong.
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H.E. the Governor said: The Parents should be reminded that experiment which begins here to- The playing fields which would it is not given to every man to be day is not only full of interest, soon he taken in hand would be as of the same ability, but, every man but will. I venture to hope, mark! spacious as any schools in the can be of good character." It is the beginning of a new era Colony. The erection of the the duty therefore, of every school educational enterprise in Hong hostel, of which His Excellency towards both the State and country kong and perhaps in China. We was to lay the stone, was in the to produce such men, and the are attempting nothing less than capable hands of Mr. Lam Woo English Public School system is to found in this Colony a public who said he expected the work to the best means of attaining this de-school after the model of those in the United Kingdom. Great he. finished within twelve months.
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In commenting on the favourable de-corns, as well as the courage jour midst, and successfully foster surroundings, Sir Henry said the of carrying out their own convie-its growth, we shall have won a new School' was conveniently tion for good and a determination great triumph in the cause of placed near the bathing, beach, to refrain from doing what they education,
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