No_6_1954 — Page 27

CHUNG CHI

COLLEGE

GLENEALY

Architect:

Mr. C. D. Su

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The presence in the Colony of a large body of students from the Chi- nese middle schools anxious to con- tinue their education in the medium of Chinese, and of many unemployed professors and lecturers from Chinese universities, has led to the establish. ment of a number of private post- secondary schools. Of these twelve are day schools and nineteen are evening schools. They offer a wide variety of courses in arts, journalism. social education, economics, theology, science. business administration, banking and accountancy, automobile and aeronautical engineering. wire- Jess telegraphy and radio-technology. Standards vary almost as widely as the curricula.

(Above) Photograph of the building from the north-east.

(Below) Block plan.

The institution which gives great promise of further development is "On the tablet the date of Alopen's to be priests, who could go on to study the Chung Chi College, whose aim is coming to China is recorded. By in Canton. This plan succeeded. to re-embody the Christian influence Western calculation that is 635 years which previously existed in the Chi- after the birth of Christ. In exactly nese Christian universities, and it is the same

year the great decisive aided by funds from the United Christian Mission, which finally made Board of Christian Colleges in China England Christian, came to my own pagan ancestors in the north of Eng- land.

and the China Christian Universitles Association.

Chung Chi College moved to new premises at the Bishop Hoare Mem- orial Building. Glenesly, early in March 1954. The College also has premises at 147. Caine Road. There are now 210 students with a staff of 30 members.

"This building is to be in memory of Bishop Hoare, who was drowned in the great typhoon on September 18, 1906. Bishop Hoare was in a boat coming back from Castle Peak, for there was no road then. when the typhoon blew up. With the four theo-

In his speech at the opening, Bishop logical students who were with him, Hall said, in part:

minister.

he was drowned. Those students were then living in a hostel on this site, learning as the Bishop's apprentices the craft of the Christian They had been doing some practical training at Castle Peak.

"In this new building you will see copied the cross engraved on the fa- mous tablet in Sian which describes the first known Christian Mission to China. A rubbing of that tablet is in front of us now. We hope that this "After this disaster, theological eross rising from the lotus and the training was moved to Canton, and clouds with a flame of fire rising St. Paul's Anglo-Chinese School was from it, may become in some form, started here, in the hope that such the crest of Chung Chi College.

a school would produce men willing

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