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PRIZE DISTRIBUTION.ed through a satisfactory system

of national education,

THE DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL

of:

Theoretical Impossibilities.

The world is full of such thobre- tical Inipossibilities but the world moves on slowly all the same. Thia At the annual distribution

at least may be said of this Colony. prizos at the Diocesan Girls' That the University and the Headmis-schools of Hongkong ure becom- School yesterday, the tress, Miss Sawyer, in presentinging more and more intimately con- the 27th report on the work of the nected with the whole framework of the Colony's social and civic life: Actually education follows, School, said in part:

slowly and at a long distanco, a movement in the videa of what education might or ought to be.

It was in March last year that I said I felt that because of the passing of Miss Ferguson the year 1925 would leave its mark on the Think of this-when-next you hear a so-called practical man Diocesan Giris School and now I feel that 1926 has been equally disposing of an enthusiast by the vital in the school's history. Miss old, old retort that the enthusiast's Dulmage of the Canadian Presby: Ideas are impracticable. As if terlan Mission, who had been leat any great, vital movement of the to us by her mission board, was heart er mind could ever be trum appointed by the school commit-melled by the limitations of the teo to act as Head Mistress while immediately practical. "The wind

Lion includes more and more of fe, nor is it only that they wre complex, for the object matter to which they are, applied is neither stationary nor periodic and cai- calable in its movements: It is always in flux and we do not pos- sess the formula of its change.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ORGAN RECITAL.

AID FOR ST. JOHN'S ORGAN. FUND.

The organ recital at St. John's Cathedral last evening, in ald of the fund for the reconstruction of the instrument, was well attended in spite of the adverse weather. Mr. Frederick Mason A.R.CO., L.T.C.L, gave a masterly perfor mance, bringing out the best that the organ could give. He was assisted by Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy, who rendered the Soprano solos with her accustomed praiseworthy execution.

In the Cathedral precincts,, ap- plause is withheld, but both Mr. Mason and Mrs. Bellamy, would, in other circumstances have gained well merited encores.

The programme was as follows:

Borowski. Bairstow,

(a)" world, I o'en müst

leave thee"....Brahms. (b) "The people that in

darkness sat a glorious light have seen" .....Parry. .Mendelssohn. 4.-Soprano Solo,.. "Hear my

prayer. 5-Marche, Solennelle,

I was on furlough. As most ofbloweth whither it listeth." Mean-1-Prelude, fram First Suite, her while and consequently, the pro- you know, the was called to

Buffering, onblems of education become more [2-Evening Song. reat after severa Sept, 20th, and Miss Waltors very and more complex because educa- 3.-Choral Preludes:- loyally and ably carried on under great stress and difficulty until my return last month. In spite of much sickness and many changes on the staff the work of the school has maintained a high standard, and we have received a very satie factory report from the Education Office after the annual inspection. Mr. de Martin visited the echool in June, and, again, at the end of November; and Dr. Minelte mede two medical inspections, one in July and one in December, and her reports and suggestions, have

were

Tschaikowsky.

We can only interpret the pro-

HYMN BO. Collection for Organ Fund. sent by experience of the past and even that experience is defective. What was true of yesterday is 6-Soprano Solo, "How beau-

tiful are the fect"..Handel. ....d'Evry. not necessarily true of to-day and will probably not be true of to-7-Meditation,

Boellmann. arrow. We legislate for condi-8-Minuet, from Gothic Suite, tions which are in process of

"Bairstow's Evening Song" and been most acipful. The Univer-change. Here something like a

the concluding gift of divination is needed no less the "Minuet, sily examination resulta

particularly good, matriculation One

than the two qualities of exper item, were satisfactory. candidate was entered and passed, ence and enthusiasm. To govern while Handel's "How beautiful are

zeal with wisdom, to preserve the feet" with 3 distinctions. Nine entered for the Senior examina motive power in pecumlated ex- tions, of whom oight passed, with perience, another gift is needed,

enter- distinctions. Ten were

the gift of constructive imagina tion, 'ed for the Junior, of whom eight passed, three with distinctions in all.

Progress in Sports.

were

The Imagination.

was the best of Mrs.

Bellamy's, contributions.

the

face of the many difficulties and tribulations through which the School passed during last year. I claim that the most important He spoke of the esprit de

the impending Miss Sawyer referred to the pro-thing in secondary and higher edu- thus revealed, and referred with gress in sports, and to the enlarg-cation is the cultivation of the rent regret to ed facilities and accommodation imagination, There was a time departure of the Rev. and Mrs. Portraits of the late Miss For portant thing was the acquisition School had been invaluable. provided for recreation at the When we proceeded as if the im- Lindsay, whose work for School, thanking all those who had of information, it did not very helped. nancially and with their much matter about what. Thero guson and Miss Dulmage were un- advice. An old hope was Palis was very little excuse for this. A veiled at the far end of the Hall ed, by the formation recently, of good many years have passed by Mrs. M. K. Lo, President of the the Diocesan Old Girl Associa-since Plato made Socrates say in Diocesan Old Girls' Association, tion, whose value to the School is "Republic." "But then, if I am the Rev. Copley Moyle paying a could not be over-emphasized. Girl Guides of the School com-right, certain professors must be tribute to the loving memory bi

wrong, when they say that they these two ladies. peted in the Prince of Wales Ban- ner in May and were successful input knowledge into the soul which earrying it off.

wo

was not there before, like sight into blind eyes." We have re- this. Nowadays, Speaking of the great interret pented of all which the departing Vicar of St. the scientist vies with the artist Andrew's Church and Mrs. Lind in calling upon young men and say have always shown in the young women to sec.visions and to work of the School, the Headmis dream dreams. If you who are tross went on to say: Mr. and schoolgirls to-day can see things Mrs. Lindsay ever since their ar-as they now are in their true pers- rival in the Colony, have been in pective and at the same time sec. very close touch with the School, visions of what they might be, and whose unfailing kindness I then, indeed, we shall not solve cannot adequately speak. I think the problem of education that solved when the

eloses-but it is only those who have worked will only be

world process with then a dog's we have shall avoid those two deadly who can realised what true and enemies of the soul, superficiality

anal Mrs. faithful friends. Mr.

and formalism. Lindsay are to us. Both are valu-

I knew your head mistress, Miss able members of our Committee, Mr. Lindsay has always been an Sawyer, long before either of us sporing in his time, lavish in his ever dreamed that one day would see us both sitting on the same sympathy and interest, and to me school platform in Kowloon. I personally most kindly, and, belp congratulate Miss Sawyer on being ful in his advice. I know voice the headmistress of the Diocesan the heartfelt opinion of both Girls' School, and the Diocesan staff and school when I say that Girls' School on having as its head.

from we shall miss them very

mistress Miss Sawyer. If when they leave us, and for our time to me both of think

feel sad at the own sake we thought of their departure; and wistfully of India, it can at least a reproach not be brought as we thank them most sincerely for against us that we have left our all they have done and are doing. first love. And perhaps India was and is rather specially calculated Mr., Hornell's Address.

to impress upon the British teacher Rev. Mr. Lindsay read the state that his or her work there will be ment of accounts of the School, wholly without avail if it be not during the past year. The prizes based on sympathetic understand- were presented to the successful ing, patience and long suffering, pupils by the Vice-Chancellor of and that these qualities must be the Hongkong University, (Mr. W. genuine and not mere cloaks of, W. Hornell) who said:

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Inefficiency, weakness

In Hongkong to- wardice. Most men and women are always

day the kume problems willing to talk about education

teachers confront even if only to abuse it, but I have noticed that those whose confronted Miss Sawyer and me in lives are spent in a vain attempt India. The old order in China is to find a practical solution for its changing with a vengeance and it insoluble problems are, as a rule, is hard to stille misgivings as we the most reticent. Part of the think of the now order to which price which has to be paid for the the old is giving place. The importance which education has organisation of the machinary of assumed in common thought is political, social and domestic life that we are living in an era of can effect nothing unless this re- over emphasised half truths on the organisation be accompanied by a But youth subject. All these tend to produce quickening of ideals.

is not the time for dismay and I corresponding reactions. It is hard to strike a balance between am not going to end on a note of the enthusiasm of inexperience and Warning. The toughest problems, the disillusion of experience; and the most critical situations have everywhere and always there is no terrors for the simple faith of the constant danger of becoming a happy child. In times of pros- absorbed in the markinery of edu-perity men and women are upt cation for its own sake and for- to become hard and exacting, but zetting that all machinery is but humility and gracefulness, those a means, and that what matters is are the qualities which count at

duct.

!

all times. "My poet's vanity,"

the quality and value of the pro-Rabindranath Tagore once wrote, "dies in shame before thy sight, It is sometimes and that every

Oli, Master Poet, I have sat nation, as every individual, gets

down at thy feot, eventually what it wants provided Only let me make my life that it knows what it wants and

simple and straight, that it wants it enough. Cor-

Like a flute of reed for thee tainly in education If the demand

to fill with music,” is vague and feeble the supply will be correspondingly tentativo and Portraits Unveilled, uncertain. All the world over we

Rov. Copley Moyle thanked the seem to be faced with the paradox, that a satisfactory system of na- Vice-Chancellor for his attendance tional education can only be creat and speech, and congratulated the ed in an educated nation, and an Staff and pupils on a most success- educated nation can only be creatful year of work achloved in the

Before the proceedings terminat fed with a short entertainment by the pupils, the Rev. Mr. Lindsay said he wished to emphasize what had been stated by the Headmis tress in regard to the excellent work of Miss Walters and other members of the staff during the most anxious and critical times in the history of the school, lust year.

Amongst the visitors present were the Director of Education (MA E. Wool), Mr. M. K. Lo, and many others.

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