It was he who had nursed and nurtured an infant Anglo-Chinese Boys' School, consisting of only 16 boys on 5th February 1909, and brought it up to be a strong and growing educational institution - the present St. Paul's College - which had at varying times, year after year, banded together as many as 400 students within its walls for "Education" and "Instruction," to use the two words emphasised by Bishop Ingham during his brief stay as a result of his continuous labours, the ultimate bounteous outpourings of blessings upon the then rising generations, particularly those in closer contact with him; but suffice it, however, to ascertain with what motto this thin "devoted and earnest principal" (as H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard once termed him) has unswervingly toiled all along. To seek it, however, one has only to consider the following extracts of his speech made on October 28, 1911, at the "Opening Function of the College Extension":
"We desire to send forth scholars and athletes, it is true, but beyond all, we aspire to send out men of upright, sterling character......
"Our greatest aspiration... is that by a daily study of the Great Ideal there may be fashioned in every boy's heart something of that noble character which has won the admiration of the world. Then may we well expect them to be good citizens... for 'no man liveth to himself."
SCHOOLS FOR THE POOR
It is significant that his activities also projected, though necessarily on a comparatively much smaller scale, beyond the precincts of St. Paul's College. They include the founding and maintaining of Free Schools for the Poor at different places, namely: Ngok, Tam Pu Village and Sin Chuen (Tseng Shing District, East River) 1912; Shek Ki (1919); St. Paul's Junior School at Hollywood Road, and Yaumati (1914); Aberdeen (1915); The Free Night School at St. Paul's College (1916); and Tai Hang (1919).
St. Paul's Girls' School was not much of an exception. It opened in 1915 with himself as Chairman of the School Council and Miss K. Stewart (now Mrs. E.W.L. Martin) as Headmistress (1915-1917) and Miss F.C. Woo, her successor. In 1930, the school had to undergo certain changes and eventually became re-organized under the new name of St. Paul's Girls' College, having still with them Miss F.C. Woo, M.B.E., as Principal.
The Rev. A.D. Stewart was also mainly instrumental in bringing about numerous extensive additions to his College. They are, for instance, The New College Chapel (1911), known as St. Paul's Church, lent to the Chung Hua Shing Kung Hui for Divine worship; the reconditioned West Wing of the Old School Building (1913); the New School Gymnasium (1917); and St. Paul's Hostel (1919).
The Hostel was originally housed in rented quarters and later, in 1914, in premises of his, rent-free. In 1916, to accommodate more boarders, a larger building at Caine Road was bought by him, again for the same purpose. This was subsequently sold to procure the proceeds as a loan for making up some $90,000 to acquire the present hostel in 1919.
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It was he who had nursed and purtured an infant Anglo-Chinese Boys' School, consisting of only 16 boys on 5th February 1909, and brought it up to be a strong and growing educational institution - the present St. Paul's College - which had at varying times, year after year, banded together as many as 400 students within its walls for "Education" and "Instruction," to use the two words emphasised by Bishop Ingham during his brief stay as a result of his continuous labours, the ultimate bounteous outpourings of blessings upon the then rising generations, particularly those in closer contact with him; but suffice it, however, to ascertain with whet motto this thin "devoted and earnest principal" (as H.E. Sir
· Frederick Lugard once termed him) has no unswervingly toiled all along. To seek it, however, one has only to consider the following extracts of his speech made on October 28, 1911, at the "Opening Function of the College Extension:*
"We desire to send forth scholars and athletes, it is true, but beyond all, we aspire to send out men of upright, sterling character......
"Our greatest aspiration... is that by a daily study-of the Great Ideal there may be fashioned in every boy's heart something of that noble character which has won the admiration of the world. Then may we well expect them to be good citizens.. for 'no man liveth to himself."
9CHOOLS FOR THE POOR
It is significant that his activities also projected, though necessarily on a comparatively much smaller scale, beyond the precincts of St. Paul's College. They include the founding and maintaining of Free Schools for the Foor et different pleces, namely: Ngok, Tam Pu Village and Sin Chuen (Tseng Shing District, East River) 1912; Shek Ki (1919); St. Pauls Junior School at Hollywood Road, and Yaumati (1914); Aberdeen (1915); The Free Night School at St. Paul's College (1916); and Tai Hang (1919).*
St. Paul's Girls' School was not much of an exception. It opened in 1915 with himself as Chairman of the School Council and Miss K. Stewart (now Mrs. E.W.L. Martin) es Eeadmistress (1915-1917) and Miss F.C. Woo, her successor. In 1930, the school had to undergo certain changes and eventually became re-organized under the new name of St. Paul's Girls' College, having still with them Miss F.C. Woo, M.B.E., as Principal.
The Rev. A.D. Stewart was also mainly instrumental in bringing about numerous extensive additions to his College. They are, for instance, The New College Chapel (1911), known as St. Paul's Church, lent to the Chung Hua Shing Kung Hui for Divine worship; the reconditioned west Wing of the Old School Building (1913); the New School Gymnasium (1917); and St. Paul's Hostel (1919). “
The Hostel was originally housed in rented quarters and later, in 1914, in premises of his, rent-free. In 1916, to accommodate more boarders, a larger building at Caine Road was bought by him, again for the same purpose. This was subsequently sold to procure the proceeds as a loan for making up some $90,000 to acquire the present hostel in 1919.
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