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THE HONG KONG DAILY

ESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930,

THE TRADITIONS OF QUEEN'S

COLLEGE.

ACTINGTM GOVERNOR PRESIDES AT PRIZE DAY.

RECORD OF A SUCCESSFUL YEAR'S WORK.

IMPORTANCE OF OUTDOOR GAMES.

Presiding at the annual distribution of prizes to the studenta of Queen's College yesterday, His Excellency the Officer Adminis tering the Government (the Hon. Mr. W, T. Southorn) congratu- lated the staff, on the record of another year's successful work and referred to the fine traditions upheld by the institution for over sixty years.

The Headmaster, Mr. A. H. Crook, O.B.E., read an interest- ing report of the year's work, including in it a reply to a news- paper correspondent's criticism of educational methods.

Among those on the platform were Mr. E. Ralpha (Acting Director of Education), the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., C.B.E., Mr. Justice Wood, the Hos, Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., and Mr. Li Yay Tsun, C.B.E...

H.E.'S CONGRATULATIONS TO STAFF.

H.E. THE HON. MR. W. T. SOUTHORN. CONGRATULATES HEAD- MASTER

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natural gilt or special advantage, may and no difficulty in satisfying the examiners. The honest effort is the thing that counts in educa tion; and failure should be only stimulus to further effort.

And in your work as in your play let your sense of humour never desert you. You have in your Headmaster, a living example of one who has preserved through years of hard work the saving grace of humour. He knows the value of a smile to help one over life's gravest difficulties. Follow his good example and you will And, like Sterne, that "every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, he adds something to this fragment of kle."

College. The Magazine is widely read by past pupils and has even been in flight demand by persons completely unconnected with the College.

School Wor

The school work has gone on with unbroken devotion, which might, on a casual glance, seem like stagna- tion, but is really asiduity. Fifty- one boys from this College sat for the Matriculation and Senior Local Examination, and of these twenty- three pasad, or 4 per cent, gair ing five distinctions. One boy, Douglas Hunt, obtained honours with distinctions in both English and Mathematics. We think this a quite satisfactory result.

In the Junior Local Examination, fifty-eight boys sat and twenty-seven passed or 46 per cent., with twelve distinctions.

Exclusive of these classes which took their examination outside, there were five hundred boys who sat for the annual school examina tion. Of these three hundred and twenty-eight passed or about 651 për

cent.

In all these examinationt, both our own and the Junior Local and Matriculation, the slight increase in stringenes in passing is not a bad sign, nor a sign of want of work, but a good omen for the future.

**The Junior Local Debacle "': A Reply.

Persons writing in the News papers have spoken of the Junior Local Debacle"; and one corre spondent said that the method of tracking English to Chinese in Hong Kong is utterly at faule" This writer go on to explain what he thinks ought to be done. There should be through grounding in plain matter of fact English prose iuch, for instance, as that found in well-written newspaper leaders." The letter is not very ne curate in some respects but it is not this which makes me wish that the writer would read over carefully Herbert Spencer's famous simila of the metal planisher in his small Study of Sociology page 266,

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His Excellency said:-Mr. Crook, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Boys of Queen's College,--The Headmaster bas remarked on the monotony of the Annual School Report, but this year I have at any rate one new topic, and that is the honour con- ferred by His Majesty the King on your Headmaster. The whole Colony welcomes this recognition of Mr. Crook's work for education in Hong Kong For nearly twenty seven years Mr. Crook has devoted himself to the boys of Queen's College, and in the course of that time has helped to turn out many distinguished citizens. On behalf of the Government and of the people of Hong Kong, I tender to him the heartiest congratulations 1 his report said:- on a distinction which honours notĮ only a brilliant educationist but the whole profession of education.

I have listened with interest to the Annual Report and I congratu late Mr. Crook and his staff on the scholars on the roll with an average | Mathematics: and it would be very

daily attendance of throughout the Colony.

HEADMASTER'S REPORT.

450 APPLICANTS REJECTED.

The Headmaster in the course of

We had 228 working days the same as the previous year-and a good attendance of pupils through- out the year. There were 601

90 per cent.

At the beginning of the year we accepted. all the new boys we had room. for. These were mostly in divisions of Classes & and 3; those in Class 3 being from the District We had to turn away Schools. about 450 applicants.

In spite of its somewhat antiquated buildings and its unsuitable sur roundings, to which I noticed a poetic reference. in a recent number of the Fellow Dragon, Queen's Col- lege maintains the reputation for echolarship which has been its pride throughout a long history of over

Though there was a good atte sixty years. It cannot be this site er these buildings which attract the dance of pupils and their health youth of Hong Kong to Queen's as good, there was quite a lot of College-yet we hear that some 450 sickness among the Staff and I re- applicants were turned away last gret to say that a, bighly valued The attraction must be in member of the Staff, Mr. Lai Pui the Queen's College tradition a Yan, died during the year. As boy tradition which every boy must and master he had been directly con- make it a personal duty to main-accted with the College for over a tain and to hand down unsullied to quarter of a century. He was a future generations of Queer's Col- very cheery and conscientious work

er whose place is hard to fill.

vear.

lege boys.

The College has suffered a seri ous loss in the death of Mr... Lai Pui Yan, one who had for 25 years helped to maintain that tradition of which I have been speaking.

Athletics.

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Sports and Opium. -

newspaper correspondent says: "It would be interesting to know why it is that in the case of an exact subject like Mathematics the University prescribes a definite text book, whereas in the case of European History no guidance is a vague and wide subject like But the University does not prescribe a definite text-book in

in History.

Two years ago the University did actually prescribe a volume of modern essays, newspaper leaders, as an English text-book. It was a hopeless and almost worthless book

to try to teach.

The fact of the matter is that it is almost impossible to teach English in this way. The best way to teach correct English, is by paraphrasing and what this writer says is waste of time is really good paraphrasing. He says: the teacher's time is wasted in showing that certain ex pressions are now ungrammatical or altogether changed in meaning." But in this very way the best type of English can be taught and the foundation for it given by the form which is to be corrected.

There

Paraphrasing,

is only one fault to be found with paraphrasing i.e. it of necessity often murders a wonder ful piece of literature. When this actually happens it is the teacher who generally suffers most. As a school boy I remember my English Titerature teacher givng me Brown ings invocation to his wife from The Ring and the Book" to par- phrase:-.

"Oh lyric love-half angle, and

half bird

"And all a wonder and a wild desire"

I have often tried since to par-

newspaper.

We had our general sports meet- ing early in the year and also had competitions in volleyball, tennis, swimming, as well as matches with other schools in football, cricket, Many of these I heard with interest your Head. and volley-ball. master's references to your varied sports are indulged in enthusias activities in the Geld of athletics tically: and the best of them from and I share his view that school a health point of view, swimming, bis now as popular among the Chi- games, important though they are.

nese as it is among Europeans. I should not be allowed to usurp the should like to say here with refer- place of learning in the school cur-

ence to the opium habit in China riculum. But I do think that out- door games are of special import that it is not so much preaching in schools against the evils of opium ance to Chinese boys of the pre-which will effect any change as the sent generation. The Chinese boy introduction of normal healthy ex- inherits a traditional reverence for scholarship; but the world cannot crcise among the masses of the Chi- be run by pure scholarship alone. ese people. No one need ever say These casential qualities of charge that a person who takes regular ter without which leadership is in healthy exercise and keeps it up possible must be learned as much throughout life will become heavily addicited to opium smoking. The outside the classroom as in it, and brightest hope for the future of the it is here that organized games can provide one of the necessary in Chinese race lies in the growth of this love of healthy sport. We were gredients of education. China to- day is stirring into new life after pleased to see, therefore, that our centuries of stagnation. It needs previous year's senior swimming above all the well educated man of champion, Yeung Yuen We, won the open competition for Chinese across action-not the pure scholar whose the Harbour, and that, his cousin, outlook is bounded by his "study Yeung Yuk Wa; of Class 4, a wale, still less the pure athletë whose horizon is limited by the junior, came in first in the same goal post or the wicket, but the race. They are both the sons of man of sound physique and sterling bonoured old boys of this College.

In many Home schools the various character, of wide outlock and bal-sports and their addenda usurp sil anced judgment such as can only be the energies of the institution. We tion of serious work and serious Sports, are very good, and essential newspapers, y play. Buch a combination it is the in their place, But after all sport So far as it can be attributed to air of schools like Queen's College is only to keep the body healthy any cause it is due to the system" and school masters like Mr. Crook and the mind fully alert. It ought by which students who have only to produce. The true product of not to be the be-all and the end-all a mere smattering of English can good education is the active and

go to private schools where they receptive soul. We want you to be

are pushed on. irrespective of The Yellow Dragon. receptive to new ideas, active to

merit, to work for which they are carry them out and above all honest "The Yellow Dragon, the monthly totally unfitted. Until all these in your purpose; for, as was aptly organ of the school activities, has schools are closed up by absorption put in an address I was reading a flourished with great vigour. Like and the scholars graded in organis few days ago, "ability and know every good College magazine it has ed Government Schools this type ledge unless in the grip of sound failed to pay in the mere monetary of monstrosity will abound. character are but dangerous tools." sense; but has acted as a close link To a people with a language like Your education in your school is between the old boys and the pre- the Chinese where the time and your preparation for efficiency in sent boys of the school and done xtate of an action

are entirely much to foster interest in the divorced from the verb, and inde Winners and Losers.

College. As the Dragon in anciented often not expressed at all; and I congratulate the prize-winners, times had much influence on the where singular, and plural are not so obvious and important sea they hut I do not condole with the weather it is fitting that this one

are with us: where number is often losers. The loner who can give of should live up to its tradition and his best and see another carry off this year we published a very com- only considered in a very gener- al way, the correct expression of the prize, and still smile and offer plete and valuable meteorological

time and state as expressed in our congratulations to the winner, may graph of the weather conditions in

verb is extremely difficult and can- well be acquiring a better educa- Hong Kong during the year, based tion than he who, by reason of some on the daily readings taken in the

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A similar process holds good in reference to subjects. for the Matri culation and Junior Local Exami nation-bad subjects drive ont good ones, good subjects cannot drive out bad ones. Once allow a chesp "soft-optin" subject into the cur riculum, and every student wants in take it to the abandonment of the good subject

Perhaps geography might be made a compulsory subject at ma- triculation, or better still, high value set upon it in.. University Course..

Boruo the

Class work in schools or indeed in a University gives little scopo for the cultivation and training of the aesthetic faculties, though these are just as important a part of the mind as any other. We try to encourage one part of aesthetics by teaching a certain amount of

Initiative and Inspiration. drawing; and to further this, we have two competitions in the year Education which aims merely at in painting, drawing, brush-work, the production of proficient clerks, proficient students and proficient and also in map production.

The pictures seat in for these husiness men is not enough and competitons this year showed, we would probably end a failure. think; an improvement on many There is something beyond all previous ones. Although we teach these. There is an initiative and an inspiration which lies behind drawing in the school and think it ought to be taught we find it hard dll literature, art, and science to justify it as a Matriculation which is the driving force and mo- subject, and we think that Hong tire power which gives zest and Kong University must be one of ideals to our lives; and it is to the only ones in the world which instil the beginnings of this which. has drawing in its regular matri-is our great object. If we can once get the student to have such an in- culation subjects.

The series of maps which were tete in or love for literature all eent in for our competiton were the rest will follow. You say, no or outstanding merit, so much one ever reaches such a state. You aro wrong. But if one in a thous that we found great difficulty in judging them. We decided there- and or one in ten thousand, does fore, to send about 12 or 14 of the then the game is worth the candle. best of them to Mr. Reeves, the Before closing I should like to Map Curator and Cartographer of express our thanks to those old the Royal Geographical Society, boys and others whose amazing whose works on maps and

map generosity supplies these lovely. the prizes some of which are to be dis production are known over whole civilised world. We asked tributed to-day, him for a frank and candid eri- ticism and for a classification in order of merit, if he cared to give

I should also like to express my indebtedness to my colleagues.on the Staff, European and Chinese,

on whom falls the brunt of the work and to whose constant loy- alty the College owes so much.

A GRUESOME FIND. AGED CHINESE GAGGED AND KILLED,

produced by the judicious combina do not wish this to be the case here, just as well attribute it to the daily ped his abilty for other types of Pitt Street. He became suspicions

life.

of existence.

Geography,

phrase the passage and have fail ed: I now think it will not got. into sermo pedestria without utter

In his reply he says:-"I have "destruction. But this is not truc

received the maps drawn by the nhout many of the speeches in

much interested in them. They are into good correct prose. Shakespeare. They can be turned boys in your College and have been Besides, the analysis of charac-all certainly most creditable pro proper training these students ter and the back ground of incid-ductions, and it is clear that with ent in the plays from the warp

would make really good geographi and weof for a lesson such as is

cal draughtsmen.". not given by any leader from a

I may say also that Teung Yuk Wa, who came in first, in the har

An Indian police sergeant, while It is a very easy matter to take an

bour race sent in a map which Mr. utterly idiotic sentence such as Reeves describes as "a very credit on his rounds in Pitt Street, "Until the men were died his able production," showing that the Yaumati, yesterday morning, over friends were bury him." and to at interest, this boy has taken in heard some Chinese discussing a tribute it to the teaching of Sha swimming line, not altogether sap. broken door at the rear of No, 0, kespear and such like.

and on entering the premises the excellence.

sergeant discovered the dead body olan "ddy Chinese, caretaker Of all subjects taught in schools lying in a narrow passage why at geography is probably the most the foot of a pile of timber. The educative and the best, I don't man's hands were tied behind his mean the type of geography back while over his mouth and learned when I was at school but nostrils was sccured a piece of cloth geography as it is taught now with which had been used as a gag. Life careful emphasis on physical and was extinct and beside the body meteorological work. And we hope was a small pool of blood which that the University will give the hnd flowed from the man's nose, schools of the Colony & lead and The victim had apparently been suf- goal in this subject by making focated and had been dead for at it of primary importance in the least 24 hours.

The body was then removed to matriculation examination, and by

a three years the Kowloon Mortuary and inves increasing it to course in the curriculum of the tigations are now going on. It is believed the motive of the crime' waa University,

The first part of this-to make robbery.

A later statement from the it into a primary subject at the matriculation-is no easy matter, authorities was to the effect that There is a law well know to all the man had been dead for about. political economista, called Gres thirty hours, that he had been ham's Law, which is that bad money suffocated and that little hope was drives out good money, but good held out for the arrest of the mar not be learned in a couple of years, money cannot drive out bad money derer or murderers,