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TWO ·COLLEGE SPEECH DAYS.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.

BUILDING FUND MAKING PROGRESS

SPEECH DAY ON SATURDAY.

A high preeentage of examination success and the steady progress of the New Building Fund despite the trade depression-were reported at the St. Stephen's College prize distribution in the Great Hall of the University on Saturday. The Chairman was Dr. S. W. Tao, and a large number of parents and friends were present.

There was

a very entertaining concert, after which the Chairman addressed the gathering as follows: As one of the Founders of this school I am asked to speak a few words on this Annual Founders Day. It

was in March 1903 that St. Stephen's College was started The gentlemen who approached Bishop Haare and the Church Mis sionary Society, with a

view starting a school in Hong Kong on ool lines, were Sir Ho public school

G., Sir Boahan. Wei Yuk, Kai, C.M.G.. C...G., the Hon. Mr. Chau Sui- Kei, Mr. Lai Kwai Fui and others. The first Wardens were Archdeacons Banister and Barnott

I trust the students will ever re- member these names, "and.

the

elements of astronomy, and natural DOCKSIN SCHOOL. history as it was known. Recita

sion and reading aloud were much

W

STEADY PROGRESS MAIN TAINED.

practised in the love of good speak DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.

Ench ing and the grace of address. pupil, was considered in himself, hat forced in

Philosophy any way; was taught to a select few. Al

for went to Mass in the Duama, Vittorino's ideal was not so unlike that of Walter Pater's in his sense of the need of lovely rhythm and ritual and the triumphal Pana thinaic beauty of "ascesis" (that system of physical training which led to the perfect symmetry and beauty of the Greek athlete)." Sir Rabindra Nath Tagore's Great Example.

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When I was in Bengal I saw the rise of a violent national move- ment. This movement has borne fruit-some good, some bad. of its fruits was the establishment by Sir Rabindra Nath Tagore in Bolpur of his famous school-the Santi Nikatan or the Abode of Peace. Sir Michael Sadler visited the

Nikatan Santi

when he was in Bengal as a member of the

from the

A review of the School's examina tions, Sports, and discipline was given by Mr. Dixon Chan, the Frin- cipal, at the annual prize distribu- tion on Saturday of the Docksin English School. The function took place in the auditorium of the Chinese Y.M.CA.

The prizes were distributed by Professur C. A. Middleton Smith, of the Hong Kong University, who was afterward presented with a framed picture.

The proceedings opened with an man, Mr. Ke Kan Wing, B.A.. address in Chiness by the Chair- after which Mr. Dixon Chan, the Principal of the school, read the report for 1926 from which we give the following extracts:

Annual Report.

is an extractie-organisation

after

the heavy

Calcutta University Commission. The past year was a period of arid the follision's Report losses of the previous year, due to It is a boarding school for boys; the strike in 1925 which caused a situated in a rolling upland in drop in the number of boys. The open country, and combining in its school would no longer have beer. course of training and methods of in existence, had it not been for discipline Indina tradition with

some benefactors and zealous educa- fleas from the West. With regard tionalists who were so kind as to Old Boys will ever rally round the to the general work of the school it

lend a helping hand to the school. Old School to sustain its traditions must suffice to say that it is no

History, stall and the distinctive contribution

privilege for boys to receive which it makes to the education

The school was started on Septem lessons in their vernacular from ong of Chinese students from Hong celebrated writers of the age

the ci most accomplished and ber 3rd, 1903, at No. 6, Lower Mosque Terrace, Caine Road. so it Kong and many parts of China.

No one who has seen the poet, is quite in ita infancy. During It gives me confidence in the school to find the boarding departating bareheaded in a long robe the first term the number of boys ment fall to overflowing; and such in an open verandah of a low- was about half a hundred. We men or the College Council as Sir roofed house-the wide hedgeless occupied at first one flat only but H. Follock, Messrs. Fattenden and Horizon beyond-with a

fields stretching to the

distant owing to the gradual increase of P. Lauder, supported now by three little boys, each on his carpet, in aing in March, 1924. We kept up,

class of applicants we took the whole build- Old Boys, Messrs Li Hoi Tang circle before him on the ground, good number, "approaching, the Chairman of the Tung Wa Hos pital, T. N. Chau M., Barrister,

can ever forget the impression, or gure 100 during the course of that of the

be insensible to the service which year. But in April the next year, and K. L. Chau, M.A.

Sir Rabindra Nath Tagore renders the collapse of the retaining wall Education Department.

to his country by offering to the in front of the school compound, The Year's Report. younger generation the best that he necessitated our removal. For- The Rev. E. W. L. Martin. Act has to give."

tunately, we scoured a suitable ing Warden, in his report stated: Work For Others Not Agitation. building in the neighbourhood, and

The year has passed quietly. We

The partition of Bengal in 1905 shifted over by May 1st, 1996 to No. have as usual. about 150 students had stirred the Bengalees to their 50, Upper Peel Street. The glass- rooms, six in number, are very well depths. Young mien Pokfulum House. familes became agitators and roam.lighted and airy.

good

Unexpectedly,

and over fifty students and staff reside at our The Warden of the College Rev. W. H. Hewitt, B.D., M.A., was com

pelled to return to England owing

to ill-health in October.

The Chinese School has been re- organised, and much enthusiaan is shown for Chinese studies, special

of

ed the country, raising disturbances the strike came at the end of and burning foreign cloth. One June in the same year and we were such young man fell under the in- obliged to suspend work and de- Tagore who took him to the peace August, and to our surprise we fluence of Sir Rabindra Nath clare summer vacation three weeks earlier. We re-opened early in of Bolpur and bade him work for found only about 30 per cent of the others. Some years afterwards

the

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examination. Certain couracs, were open in the event of a debtor apply.." ing for discharge from bankruptcy. ABSCONDERS WARRANT

ISSUED.

With regard to the affairs of Pan Lok Chuen, of Chik Wah Co., the Official Receiver said that a war-

** DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOURrant had been issued for the missing

OF DEBTOR."

partner's arrest but nothing bad so far eventuated. The partner Comment was made at the Bank. who was publicly examined at the ruptcy Court an Saturday by the last Court had also gone away. He acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice did not apply for a warrant in this J. R. Woody on the laxity of case, said the Ocial Receiver, but brokers in connection with the for closing the public examination affairs of a debtor, whose public in order that adjudication could be

This was granted. examination was being conducted, made.

The debtor in question bad nun into speculation debts of $40,000,

THE YEE CHEUNG LOONG FIRM. while he was in receipt of only $140

a month.

Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, for potition- His Lordship commented that the ing creditor, applied in respect of debtor, named Sheow Lan O'Hey the Yee Cheung Loong firm for a (aged 30) had behaved disgrace receiving order, stating that the he would have been in pocket; if Hing Bank had lodged a petition felly. If luck had been with him trustee in bankruptcy of the Wing he lost he could not pay

against the Yet Cheung Loong in His Lordship added that on the January last. Since an affidavit in transactions with him had allowed filed it had been ascertained that well after a three months, course.

Our Ganual examination took him to guzuble without ascertaining of the assets claimed 050 were in

There is no short cut to greatness boys have have been able to type other hand, the brokers who had support of the petition had been.

either in an individual or a nation, Discipline, self-restraint, self-sacri-

In spite of depression in businesa, fice may seem in youth dull place in December last. The rebis position or asking for security, the hands of Mr. Seth as Receiver

antisfactory. Our success in the amount of sympathy with them. aults of all classes were quite The Court could not have a great in an Original Jurisdiction action,

over $100,000 has been actually paid into the New Building Fund in voluntary subscriptions. On this, congratulations are certainly due to the Old Boys' Committee and the College Council..

UNIVERSITY VICE-CHAN- CELLOR'S SPEECH.

negative qualities, but without the practice of these no sound character

up.

Junior Local Examination last Was ever dilt

The Master said "What is goyed four candidates, and obtained year was marvellous, We present- erning to him who can rule brim 75 per cent. paases. self? Who cannot rule himself, how should he rule others 1” And

Sports.

Thanks To Mr. Hornell,

';

After the service, of the petition, Did Well Before Crash.

noties had been given by the Struthers and Barry, said that it informing

Debtor, who is an employee of Official Receiver Mr. Seth him of the filing

to

was during the boom period of 1923 of the petition and of the act that he had gambled. He knew a of bankruptcy, Subsequently, an again, the Master said "Could Owing to the lack of a play- broker who had prevailed on him to application was taken out in an- Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., Vice- 200d men govern for a hundred ground we regret that we could not start gambling, first with Cement other action against the same judg Chancellor of the Hong Kong Uni- cars, cruelty would be overcome, give much attention to physical shares. For a time he did well and ment debtors, the Yee Cheung versity, then gave an address in putting to death an ead."

culture. However, we formed a when the crash came he had no idea Loong firm, that this sum should be the course of which he said

football team, and matches with his liabilities were so much.

paid out to judgment creditors' of " The outstanding feature of the A vote of thanks to Mr. Hornell other private schools had been play Debtor added that when he start that action. An order in secord- last few years in China has been for his presence, his inspiring aded with success Swimming parties ed, speculating he had something ance with this was made, in spite Chinese renaissance, a new tide dress and for permission to hold the had also occasionally been formed. like 88,000, which he had saved or of the fact that he (Mr. Tinson) in the movement of the realm of concert and prize-giving in the

Discipline.

had been given him by his father, who had informed the Official Re reason, as was the renais

aissance of Great Hall was proposed by Mr.

Discipline is maintained in other money.

That had gone the way of all his ceiver of the position was not pre- Europe which closed the middle W. L. Pattonden and, heartily car-

seat, neither, he believed, was the very strict manner, and no serious ages and opened the modern age. ried. “

Cross-examined as to prospects Official Receiver. But the renaissance in Europe not The Chairman was also thanked offence has been reported Boys, for repayment debtor stated that Such an order must be bad, only produced scholars. it had also by Mr.. T. N. Chau.

on the whole, have been painstaking ho could see none at present. He claimed Mr. Tinson, as it was made its famous schools. There was one

and diligent The Concert. Vittorino who made himself a

In conclusion, I beg to extend, as a married man with children at a time when there was an avail- able act of bankruptcy and execu beggar for the love ci youth." The following contributed to the on behalf of the school, my sincerest and could not put by anything.

·He had declined to renew an offer tion. had not been completed. Vittorino's ideal of education tertainment: Mr.

programme of music and other en- thanks to Pro. Smith for baving so

Mr. Tinson also referred to pay- H. C. Yau kindly consented to present the made two years ago for the pay- was to maintain a happy equili (Chinese music); Miss L Suth prizes and to all of you, ladies and ment of $50 a month, because he

been passed by the Registrar in brium between the spiritual and the (recitation); Mr. T. H. Lim) violin gentlemen, for your kind presence. had had another child since then. physical. La Giocosa, the house in solo); Miss Chau (Chinese songs);

Debtor was examined as to his connection with the Original Juris- household expenses. He employed

that this, with the other sum, an amab, he stated.

Asked if he should not forego should constitute assets sufficient to the amah, debtor stated that it justify the making of a receiving would be hard on his wife.

Mr. Agassiz (Official Receiver): His Honour, however, disallowed· hard. It seems to me you are treat But the way of the poor man is the application.

which

Professor Middleton Smith

he tought in Mantua, purged Mr. Wong Wei (Firestica) Mawny the prizes to the successful ing children, lay in a pleasant gar- and Wittcatch and Dr. Y. 3. Wan an interesting addres about en- but frescoed with play- You (Chinese song); Meters, Bands students after which he delivered den; and the life of the pupils was (a sketch).

gineering and other developments interwoven with the daily miracles

during the last fteen years. of meadow and river, and little

A Presentation. Professor Lai Tani Hie (Hon hills and shaded walks. They want Lam), Professor of Chinese at the Dux of the English School (Gold 3-pleasuring too "in

groen University, was the recipient of a Medal) Chung Sik Chit; Dux of forms of

places of Goito. All

eagerly,

tha

motioncions of a silver cup from the students the Chinese School (Gold Medal ing this matter rather too lightly.

ment of 81,200 a sun which had

diction action costs and he claimed

order.

OFFICIAL NOTICES. The Gazette announces that a of St. Stephen's and of a framed Lo Tai Shing (presented by Hon.

Knew He Could Not Pay. third and final dividends in intend- testimonial from the College Coun- Dr. Kotowall, CM.G.); Duces of inex-

Debtor admitted that when he ed to be declared in the matter of Chinese Classes (Prizes presented incurred his large habilities he knew. Fred Normington, engineer, 80, by Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow), Class if he failed that he would not be. Whitfield, Hong Kong. Creditors 4 Lo Tal Bhing, Claes 3 Kong Chi able to meet them. But he did not who have not proved their debts Seung, Class 2 Li Ka Ngok; Wei know that they would amount to by May lat will be excluded. Our Scholarships, Chung Sik Chiu so mitch.

Notice is also given of the ad- and Scholarships, Chan Woon Nin anded or the conduct of the debtor Shun Loong Shing Kee Lan, of Nos. Low Chak Pri; Barnett After his Lordship had comment judication into bankruptcy of the Chau Hung Nin; Yunnan Scholar-in going on gambling when he knew 9 and 10, Mui Fong Street, and the ships, Chang Jung Shing and Chow he could not pay, the Official Reappointment as trustee of Wong Pow; Mok Kon Sang Scholarship ceiver said that no good purpose Pui Tong, of No. 6, Mui Fong Ling Shung Kai.

could be served by prolonging the Street.

bodily exercise making for and dignified swimming, fencing.—were tricably part of the scurse. As cil for the life intellectual, Latin Mr. Au Kwong, Senior Prefect, classics seemed good to him, read made the presentation on behalf of

па live matters, not the students.

though with до

The Chief Prizes. neglect of

Following are the grizes for the grammar, poetry, oratory, Roman history and year presented to St. Stephen's the ethics of stoicism, Grock also scholars by Mr. W. W. Hornell, Sé gave Plutarch, Plato, Aristo C.I.E., Vice-Chancellor of the Hong phanes, Eschylus; some mathema-Kong University: tics and geometry were taught, the (Continued on next column).

alovencally