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PUI YING MIDDLE SCHOOL

Architect: S. K. Loong, B. Sc. (Eng.)

Photograph of the main elevation of the school just nearing completion.

The new Pui Ying Middle School This educational establishment has property and Pui Ying continued to off Babington Path, near the Univer- an interesting history. It was found- prosper there, being added to from sity, was completed in June. It took ed in 1879 by the American Presby- time to time.

accommodate session.

a year to build and is the biggest terian missionary, Rev. Henry Var- The Rev. Noyes was for years both single school building in the Colony. tum Noyes in Canton. The school architect and builder of the school It stands seven storeys high and will was then called On Wo Tong, and establishments. He died in 1914 and 3,240 pupils in one its first pupils were small, barefooted his son carried on as principal for children who were taught arithmetic six years, during which the four-storey and something of the Bible.

Severence Hall was erected, This Gradually the school grew. In 1887 housed more than 200 boarders and it moved to a fifty-odd acres garden had a sheltered ground-floor play. site in Fati across the river southwest ground.

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of Canton where temporary school- In 1919 the Union of Missions be- houses and dormitories were built.

The following year the theological in- gan its united efforts to support Pui stitution from Sha Kee also moved in, Ying, and in 1926 transferred it to and the whole institution became for the Kwangtung Synod of the Church the first time "Pui Ying College."

of Christ in China. The Union agreed missionary to supply three full-time In 1889 a permanent three-storey teachers, and the property was leas- brick building and two-storey chapel ed to Pui Ying for a nominal dollar were erected, and in 1890 the middle school was first added. In 1893, Can-

a year.

ton Christian College (later to become The Sai Kwan Branch School was Ling Nan University) joined in, with opened in 1927 and the Toi Shan the Rev. Noyes as principal. When, Branch School in 1930. The Pak five years after, the Christian College Hok Tung School buildings began moved to Canton city the American construction on a new campus Presbyterian Mission bought the Fati over 280 acres in 1935.

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