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ST. PAUL'S BOYS' COLLEGE.
(Continued from Page Ri) blem is not of the simplest for we have to consider the fact that the Bishops of Victoria have now for eighty years had their residence in St. Paul's College and any scheme of extension on the part of the school must naturally in- clude the provision of a suitable residence for the Bishops of Vic toria olsewhere. Our hope is that the Colony will respond to this appeal and that steps will be taken at an early date to achieve this object. Thus the way will be made clear for us to go ahead with our rebuilding scheme.
O.A.G.'s Tribute. After the certificates were dis- tributed, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, said:"
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1930.
playground, all too small for its purpose, is put to the best possible use. It. redounds greatly to Mr. Stewart's credit that results so good should be achieved in premises so inadequate.
A FIRM'S ANNUAL STAFF DINNER.
ENJOYABLE EVENING AT"
LANE CRAWFORD'S. Lane Crawford's continue to
among the
keep up that happy spirit of
camaraderie
over
staff cons-
es-
A
the
which has been such a picuous feature of this old tablished firm. for many years. few weeks ago a most successful dance was held, and week-end, another staff function, quite as enjoyable, took place. This dinner. The was
ombers of the staff wors inforced by a number of gueals and some forty odd spent a very entertaining evening, amid pleas- ing surroundings.
the
annual
re
Full of Vigorous Life. And now the school has "come of age." The twenty-first-birthday in the life of a British boy márka the beginning of a new period in his life. He is no longer an "infant," but has to assume the responsi- bilities of manhood; and it is usual to mark the occasion by some cele bration and by the presentation of gifts. St. Paul's College, on its twenty-first birthday, is full of vigorous life; it is ready and an xious to assume the responsibilities of its new status; it desires to mark its coming of age by the expansion, not so much of Its numbers, as of
The restaurant was the ren- its inadequate accommodation.
the time to dezvous. Here a happy half hour Now, then, is
Paul's St. give
its twenty- was spent around the cocktail bar first birthday present by generous before an adjournment was made to the nicely-decorated tables contributions to its improve where something quite as appetiz
St. Paul's on its My Lord Bishop, Mr. Stewart, ment fund. Ladies and Gentlemen: Today, na present site supplies a very definite ing and more substantial awaitud After that came one or two we have heard, is a very special ec- educational need in that part of the attention. casion in the history of St. Paul's city. The site is much more attractoasts and a programme of song College, an 80th birthday and a tive than one might imagine, but coming of age, and it was therefore unfortunately it can only expand and music. The speeches were
bright and the evening merry. with great pleasure that I accepted by the somewhat unkind process of short and to the point, the sòngs His Lordship's invitation to be pre-ousting its own Warden and per- sent. To those of us who have been sonal friend from his old home. A brought up in a country where so new Bishop's House must be found many schools have a history of cen- before the school can expand, for turies behind them-my own school we cannot allow even St. Paul's to goas back beyond Edward the Con- turn His Lordship out to wander fessor and disputes with another homeless in the streets. A the claim to be the oldest school in siderable sum of money is therefore England-it is of especial interest involved in this twenty-first birth- to take part in proceedings to com- day present, and I appeal to all the memorate the founding of a school friends of the Diocese to rally which is almost as old as it is pos- round His Lordship in his dual sible for a Hongkong school to be, capacity of Bishop and Warden, For St. Paul's College was founded and to support his appeal for within eight years of the founda- funds. The appeal has the tion of the Colony of Hongkong,
support and sympathy and, if I may trust Dr. Eitel's of the Government though, owing History, Its roots go back to a date to the troubled times through six years earlier still. Be that as it which the Colony has been passing may, there is no doubt that St. during the last few years, I am Paul's College is one of the oldest unable to promise any immediate educational institutions of the Co-contribution from the public purse. tony, and it has the unique distinc-I can only say that any appeal for tion of occupying as part of its financial help from the Government with Mr. H. J. school premises the original build ings erected in 1849.
full
con-
will receive the fullest considera- tion as one among the many ap peals for building grants which are made by the educational institu- tions of the Colony,
Headmaster Congratulated.
Mr. S. J. Jordain (the Mana-
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ser), had conduct of the pro- ceedings and not only proved him-DANFA self a most capable toastmaster but a vocalist of note--at any and an admirable public speaker, rate where Devonshire songs were submitted the concerned. He toasts of "The King" and "Our Guests," recalling many old as- sociations. Mr. V. C. Labrum res ponded with his usual "fervour, and called upon the company to drink to Lane Crawford's.
also toasted-- Chairman" was musically and otherwise.
"Our
The programme was long and varied and was contributed to by, among others, Messrs. V. C. La- brum, Brock, W. Anderson, J. E. Anderson, F. V. Whitta, Slattery, S. J. Jordain, L. Jeeves, J. Jones, D.. M. Goodall and F. E. Skinner, Fountain at the
piano.
Old Aims and Traditions.
dominion over which he has ruled Like most old institutions, St.
for twenty-one years; his example Paul's has passed through many
should be an inspiration to service vicissitudes, but it entered on its
to past, present and future boys of Jast and most successful metamor-i
r cannot conclude without con- St. Paul's College. Mr. Stewart, 1 phosts when, in 1909, the school was gratulating Mr. Stewart on his in-offer you my heartiest congratula reconstituted as a Chinese boys'
my best school under the energetic and interesting record of the year's work. tions on the success of your twenty-
It is specially interesting for its one years' work, and spiring guidance of the Reverend record of progress outside, the wishes for the future prosperity of A. D. Stewart.His Lordship has school walls-an aspect of the the school to which you have given us a brief account of its pre-school's activities of which the long devoted yourself. gress, and on behalf of the Colony Headmaster is justly proud. It
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then
!
at the
A Generous Donation. The school report was translated in Chinese by the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, who said conclusion that he had a happy an nouncement to make. A few hours prior to the function he had met Madame Wu Ting-fang and
she
I add my tribute of gratitude and is no small tribute to the charac indebtedness to Mr. Stewart for his work for the cause of education inter of the school that it should sup- port a night school for poorer boys Hongkong.
at the College, and Vernacular Day Through all its changes St. Paul's Schools at Aberdeen and Tai Hang, has preserved its old aims and tradi-and that it should have contributed tions, and it continues under Mr.to the foundation of such prosper- Stewart's rule to give a sound praeous schools as St. Paul's Grils' kindly requested him to announce tical education with a strong moral School and the Munsang College. on her behalf that she would be background founded in the Chris-
To-day we witness the beginning most willing to donate a sum of toward the expansion tian faith. That such an education of a new experiment. The Head-$10,000 finds favour in Chinese eyes is
The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock said shown by the way the school has master, like a modern Cincinnatus, scheme.
is giving up his leadership and re- grown from sixteen boys in 1909 to turning to the plough. Education that he did not like to sound a 403 in 1930, with an ever increas- must always be experimenting, and depressive note, but he felt sure ing demand for admission. Such though change is not always for the that the College authorities would growth in numbers has only been better, yet there must from time to have to look to the Chinese com- made possible by a steady increase time be changes lest we fall into munity for support in their scheme in accommodation which, thanks to the fatal error of the self-com for further extension. Hongkong the generosity of the school's many placent groove. Not that there is had a British community of a few majority of friends, has enabled the present
(laughter) Head-them were Scotsmen buildings, including the very fine any complacency or any fear of thousands, and the
ruts with Mr. Stewart as hostel, to be erected. I had the master; the school's record of pro- furthermore, the British residents pleasure of going over the buildings gress is sufficient proof of his here were badly hit by the pre- exchange unfavourable the other day and could not but be
But Mr. Stewart feels vailing efliciency. atruck by the ingenuity with which that the time has come, in the rates. He also felt sure that the every available inch of space was interests of the school, to make a Chinese would respond to the ap- being utilised for educational or change. We can but admire the peal for funds in the same manner devotional purposes, and I intend
The function concluded with a these remarks to apply to the play-courage and self-sacrifice which as they had done in the past.
have inspired the Headmaster to ground as well as to the actual lay down the reins of office and programime of music and with i buildings, for it is clear that the accept a humbler position in the Chinese playlet.
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