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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929,
AROUND THE
Empire Day,
SCHOOLS
BY EX-COLLEGIAN.' Queen's College.
The boxing tournament held in
Diocesan Boy's School. Empire Day has been the chief
The school played a University public event for the schools during the College hall was a triumph for XI. last Wednesday but lost by 40 the past fortnight.
It is particu- the school's physical instructor, Mr.runs. The University team scored larly a school festival and the dayKid" Marriot. All the contests, 120 runs against the School's 00. when Scouts and Guides come to from fly-weight to heavy-weights The highest score for the Schoo their own and acknowledgment is were sportingly fought and in each was made by Kyum who hit up 4
runs in capital style. Nomanbhy made of the time and trouble de-event the loter was as enthusiastic- voted to scout lore Out here we ally applauded as the victor-a sign bowled extremely well nad did the do less speechmaking, than at of good discipline and sportsman hat-trick.. Most of the University players were old boys of the Dio Home, and perhaps that is not ship.
cesan School.
wholly due to the heat. There is . The school had four launches at much to be said for the Hong Kong their disposal on Empire Day sad way. Few speakers have the knacka "very pleasant time was spent of holding a schoo! audience. Per picnicking. baps some of four elders and bet-
ters think that talking to a school is easy. They should hear subse- quent comments-generous
praise
for something worth listening to, and a pretty ruthless analysis of atuff that is not.
The school has done particularly well in the Student Basketball League and the results of games played by the different schools and institutes in the League, will be found below.
Mr. A. H. Crook, the headwater, Most of us remember the patric. has written from Java to say that tic M.P. in Kipling's Stalky and he is enjoying a tour in Bali prior Cp. and the curiously unexpected to the meeting of Pan-Pacific effects of his bland platitudes!
Scientile Congress.
ro revert to Empire Day, what better way of spending it than a launch picnic enjoying the tropical sun and warm transparent water for which English youth yearns and knows only in romance After all the name, Hong Kong is romance to England.
Mr. Crock,
The School has also ventared upon basket ball, a game which it has not hitherto played very much. They met a team from the Manaang College on the School, ground ac after a hard tussle finished with honours even. This was the first match against an
outside team,
BERLIN AS IT WAS.
A RETROSPECT OF
50 YEARS.
A little town which seemed to stand among the spiky fr trees of fairy tale still rises to many minds when men speak of Berlin. On a winter morning, 30 years ago, children used to be taken för a special treat to a place far out in tion of wild beasts." In those days the woods to see the King's collec (says a writer in the Times) the word Kaiser still sounded a associated with a magnificent being little strange and was "generally
scattered houses and kitchen gar- in Vienna.. One drove between the dens of the Kurfürstendam (to-day
aninterrupted save by the shout of babel of ears, shops, and safés) a coachman warning the leisurely way. Little urchins in woolly caps. grese which would not keep off the or coloured and peaked forage capa with red mufflers pelted each other with snowballs, and an occasional St. Bernard dog sauntered along what to-day is the very centre of
sad, judging from the keen interest which the players have shown in the game there is no doubt that the Sabool team will soon be able school rivals in the Colony. to hold their own against any the new Berlin.
Wah Yan College.
The annual prize distribution took place last Thursday and I was much impressed by the stirring
address of the Hoa, Dr., S., W
Baroness "X."
The BaronessX," an iron-grey upright lady of the old school, Wendish peasant-girl, who wore the would tell her nursery-maid, a black bodice of her people (most of stiff white headdress and red and Wends and most of them spoke in
the servant-maids seemed to be
freer one felt since the City Walls comprehensible German), how much had been taken down about 13 years
before!
A few weeks ago, as I passed the
lines of plate-glass windows of shipping offices, wireless showrooms, and cinematograph theatres, jostled
who is representing Hong Kong Tso. The school report. As pre an official guest of the Dutch Gov-seated by the headmaster, revealed ernment and in addition to other a very encouraging and satisfactory privileges, travels free on all paii- state of affairs...
The announcement which appear ways. By this time, the Scientific ed recently in the news columns Congress is probably sitting. In that Mr. A. J. Mauricio is to be his last letter, the Headmaster married shortly will be of intercat mentioned that he would be visit ot only to students of Wah Tan College, but also to members of ing Krakatan before the Congress other schools and institutions. . Our thanks are due to all who opened. Krakatan is scientifically, Maurice is the physical instructor by the stream of people along the this one of the most interesting placessible to a great extent, for the those kitchen gardens, Wendish of Wah Yaa College and is respon pavements of the Kurfurstendam, have kindly helped with column and we ask for their con- in the world, having been the scene, robust health and physical fitness girls, and St. Bernard dogs seemed of students of this College. I have to belong to another world. Yes tinued support. The brief note onci, perhaps, biggest volcanic erup- a single sheet of paper, giving a tion the world has ever knows.
surely of those who passed me one in ten must still remember them? few facts makes genuinely interest.
The Baroness was a personage in ing reading to present and -past-
her way, and overawed child used to wander
It tea-time
the scholars.
Our Contributors.
St. Stephen's College, St. Stephen's College has now mored out to Stanley and during
Our Weekly Edition in particu1the past fortnight a number of lar goes far afield and readers in all parts of the world feel a per- sonal touch when they read of their old school and the people who are carrying on.
This column will appear next on Thursday, June 13, and communica tions should reach us not later than Tuesday, June 11, and should be F-addressed to
"EX-COLLEGIAN,”
--
c/o The Editor, Hong Kong Daily Press.
watched his methods and am full of
admiration for the way be handles
a difficult task. Mr. Mauricio is the idol of many Chinese school boys who have nicknamed him
The god of strength,"
St. Paul's College.
"old" boys and supporters, of the
St. Paul's College have no news school have been to Stanley to see to report, excepting that they are the school's new home. I under-participating in the inter-school stand they all came away full of basket ball in both senior and admiration. The "house moving junior divisions. Their progress in has not quite finished and the off the league is shown at the end of cial opening will be held later in this article. the year. The students, however, Hye settled down to work and all nested with the school have resumed their usual routine,
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WEEK-END MOTORING.
HEAD MISTRESS'S HINT TO FATHERS.
Miss Edwards, head mistress of
The "row" (part of it still sur vives, but I saw no horse there this Christmas) ran past her house, and officers of the garrison riding. by would tether their horses to the tree trunks and come in, all booted Ellis Kadoorie Indian School.
and spurred as they were, to drink This little school in Sookunpou, tea, a meal recently introduced into a casual stirrup cup at afternoon as its name implies, serves the Prussian society from England by the Fairfield High School, referred. emal community of Indians in the Empress Frederick. One stipu Ying To School,
Hong Kong. Although it is not alation she always insisted on-they at the annual speech day at Droyls With a view to stimulating gen-big school, it is well to the front must scrape the snow off their den to the subject of week-end eral interest in learning for its in sport and past pupils of this jackboote. As she was very parti motoring. own sake, Mr. C. C. Pun, the Prin school have always done well in calar with her household in this "May I point out to the fathers," on joining the senior respect, they did not see why others she said, that we find there are cipal of Ying To College, Gough athletice I have heard nothing but appre: Street, has arranged & series of schools to complete their studies.
should escape more lightly; and one more bilious attacks and more The school bar, I think, the best day when a big, broad-shouldered signs of fatigue among the girls, ciation from those connected with lectures which are being given in the schools of Hong Kong for this the College hall of regular inter-garden of any school in Hona man, in a blue uniform froekcont especially in the motoring season, Kong. Here the boys are given with yellow lapels, stood in the hall on Monday than on any other day feature which was started in the Dr. S. Y. Wang, Ph.D., M.Sc., lessons in horticulture and the pro and tried to come in, the Wendish of the week? Of course, it seems Daily Press a fortnight ago. I of the University of Hong Kong, duce, Rowers, vegetables and fruit. girl told him that he must go out to me that the week-end motor ride have received from the heads of gave an address on "The Life of are a credit to them-the specie- and scrape the snow off his boote may be either beneficial or other
Youth
on Wednesday, April 24.
mens being almost as good as those She was embarrassed at the general wise, according to the pace and several institutions A number, of Mr. K. F Wong, B.A., lectured produced by professional gardeners
amusement, but he obeyed very very distance. We do find, however, suggestions of a most useful nature, on Translation; its Importance
The school has a good peach tree, submissively, though the world has that the effect on the girls of very and needless to say, I shall always and Methods" on Wednesday, May and experiments in coffee, cotton. since learned that submission was long rides is both fatiguing and
maize, chillies, etc., have produced not his strong point. The poor girl demoralising? Mr. W. Chung, B.A., of the good results. The school garden is, was out of her wits when her mis- Trading Offer of the Reconstruesin fact, extremely interesting and
tress lectured her with uplifteden forefinger and said she must not tion Bureau of Kwangai, spoke oa is worth a visit. "A Comparative Study of the Chi-
worry Prince Bismarck with such At night the now garish Friedrich- nese and English Systems of Fil-
silly questions.
strasse stretched clear before the ing" on Saturday, May 23.
solitary wayfarer, and only the The Original Berlin,
bugles and drums beating Zapfen- In the middle of the Spree, north reich from the castle broke the by cast of what is now the Museum silence of thore clear frosty nights Iland, there still arose the irre-which are all that to-day bring back gular fretwork of gables known as the atmosphere of old Berlin, when Old Kölla, the original Berlin, the Victory Alley was devoid of nestling in the shadow of the un-statues and the Square of the cient castle of the Electors at Republic Was King's" (not Brandenburg. It has vanished com Kaiser's) Squaro." pletely now with all its world of winding alleyways covered by the projecting eaves of its long low
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be glad to hear from readers who are interested in this column:
During the past two weeks, I have been provided with a consider- able number of news items from our schools" and I would ask those schools, which have ao far not been meationed in this column, "to be good enough to send in any item they might be to contribute, as this feature is intended for all schools.
Jane Examinations,
The approach of the month of Jane means, in moet schools, pre: paration for the half yearly ex
8.
All three lectures were highly instructive, and a number of "old" boys were present on each cecasion.
King's College.
The Inter-class Volley Ball Com petition is now in full swing. At in past years, a knockout system is being adopted. There are fifteen senior teams and ten juniors. The Senior Competition is confined to bags of class six and upwards while the junior. classes eight and seven compete in
the school play ground every week All matches are being played on day after school. Great enthusiasm has been displayed in all games which are generally fought out in a very sporting spirit.
aminations, prior to the summer holidays. It is for this reason that I have not been able to give my readers much news in this issue from the girls'echools, whose pupils are now entirely occupier
The College has entered -- two I have been told during the week, to in the task of voting teams, one senior and one junior. take their examinations far more Students Barket "Ball League. compete in the Hong Kong seriously than beys and I have Judging by their present form, both been assured that during the weeks teams should have a very success- precteding the examinations, little ful season. -news-can-be-expected-from-girla” *Tennis is played regularly on the College Tennis Court and fods much favour with the Senior Studenta.
schools.
Hong Kong's representative oc the Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, Mr. A. H. Crook, has written to The Collegs assembles at 8. a.m. his school of his sojourn in the an innovation which has found Dutch East Indies. Some of the favour with staff and pupil's alike. details of Mr Crook'e travels can An Art Club haa alêo been, form-
be found under "Queen's College "ed by some of the very enthusiast and should prove interesting not students. The club meets on one only to schoolboys and their teach-afternoon in the week for either ers, but to the community general- landscape painting (when different parts of Hong Kong and Kowloon are visited), or for craft work.
ly.
Belilios Public School. Belilios Pubic School observed
Paupire Day and the day preced
They are learning at present
modelling in clay and eating. Some good work is expected by the end of the year.
to have
ing it by two cinema entertain ments held in the school, by which the funds of the M.C.L. bave been.
St. Joseph's College. materially helped. Grateful thanks A school concert was are due to the Hong Kong Amuse been given by past pupils of "St. ments, Ltd., who gave the peJoseph's College, a fortnight ago. formances free of charge, and to but owing to the bot weather, it all who helped to make the enter tainments a success.
was postponed.
The school is busy at work pre- Through the courtesy of Dr. Ma paring for the summer examination who put his vacht at their disposal, and ne sport items of any kind the B.P.B. Guiden rpcit” ~ ver have framed nễ The school I. enjoyable time at one of the baye | not taking part in the inter-school on Empire Day.
basket ball league.
Basket Ball
The following are the results of the Senior and Junior Student
League of the Hong Kong Backet Bali Association:-
SENIOR.. Vernacular Middle School beat #YM.C.A. Hostet
Queen's College beat St. Paul's
May
College. 7.-Tutorial Institute beat Verna.
cular Middle School.
10-Ying Wa College A beat Yer
nacular Middle School. 13.-Tutorial Institute beat Queen's
-
College.
St. Paul's College beat Verna-
cular Middle School. 14.-Wanchai School beat
Kadoorie School.
Ying Wa College A beat
YMCA. Hostel.
16.-King's College beat St. Paul's
College.
Queen's College beat Verna
cular Middle School. 17.-Wanchai School beat Y.M.C.A.
Hostel
houses.
1.
11
лет
WIS
There were only two first-class hotels, the Central and the Kaiser- hofthe latter still retains in the Vanished, too, is that aristocratic quiet of the Wilhelm- strasse something of its old atmes- many coloured scene that used to play all day there. The barges phere. I might perhaps add the from the Spreewald, laden with Royal, which stood in the Tiergar- vegetables and holly sprinkled with ten and was frequented by the
A Ellis snow, the country girls, wide-eyed Corps Diplomatique.,
and faxen, pigtailed, with their "French" hotel was just opened, baskets over one arm while with the called Hotel de Rome, and it had other they held hands rather fright naughty reputation, though I ened at the big foreign city belong doubt if it would have shocked the also to a forgotten past. So. too, Berliner of 1929. —
There are few tears shed over the the Jewish bagman in shuffling gabardine and wide-brimmed hat, old Berlin; no doubs it the chimney-sweep in his top hat arrogant and militarist. Indeed no with his formidable array brushes and ladders, the seller of prescut highly efficient ultra-modern College.
ginger-bread figures, and the car and mightily materialist Republi 20-Wanchai School beat Terna-penter in the old-fashioned livery can capital is altogether an advance of his guild, black velvet jacket.
on the sleepy and picturesque old 21-Ying Wa College A beat Ellis mother of pearl buttons, and flap town that Germans of to-day seem
Kadoorie School,
so desperately anxious to forget. ping trousers.
The Jewith bagmen, a vast num- But it certainly focused upon itself King's College beat Y.M.C.A.
ber of whom plied their trade in a society as remote as that Mark Hostel, 23-Queen's College beat Wanchai old Berlin, had a regular "ordi: Twain knew along the Mississippi. nary" at a long table in the Hôtel de Baxe, just cast of the Spree, whose windows looked across to the ried and silent meal; hardly Royal Palace. It was a very hur-
anyone spokesave to ask for
Ying Wa College A beat King's
cular Middle School
School.
St Paul's College beat
Y.M.C.A. Hostel. Tutorial Institute beat
Wa College.
Ying
28-in college beat Vernacular
Middle School.
JUNIOR.
beat
May
Wa 11.-Ying
College TMC.A. Hostel. Mung Bang College beat Ellis
Kadoorie School. 18-Mung Sang College
1:
beat
King's College, Wanchai Bchool beat Y.M.C.A.
Hostel.
22-Ying Wa College beat St. Wanchai School. beat King's
College.
one now ventures to doubt that the
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