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YING WA GIRLS' SCHOOL

MR. HORNELL'S ADVICE. TO STUDENTS,

A NEW BUILDING.

numbers steadily rose until în 1920 there were nearly 300 scholars, and from being a small boarding- school the school had grown into a large day-school with a small boarding department.

A Kindergarten class was opened in 1911, and this was thoroughly organised under a fully-trained Chinese teacher in 1916, while in 1918, for the first time, a class of girls graduated from the Middle "Let your. ambition be to School which then represented a develop into cultured Chinese three years' course of study. In women, blending with what is best 1928, English was made the medium in your own tradition that which of instruction in the Middle School has appealed to you in your school classce, and gradually these have have a education. To pose as British or developed until now we American women is merely to complete Middle School represent- make yourselves ridiculous and ing five years of study. For three not only ridiculous but unworthy years the fourth year class has of the great country of your entered for the Junior Local ex- ffth ancestors," sald Mr. W. W. amination. Last year the Hornell, CLE. M.A., Vice-year class entered for the Senior Chancellor of Hongkong Univer- Local, and this year we have girls sity, in addressing students of the preparing for Matriculation. Ying Wa Girls' School yesterday on the occasion of the opening of the new school building about Bonham Road,

Room Inadequate.

It was

obvious that new and larger premises were essential. to A few minutes after half past meet the new circumstances which three, in the presence of a large had arisen. The school was like gathering of pupils and friends, a child who had long outgrown the School staff, and Miss H. her clothes. Every inch of room Davies, former Headmistress of was utilised, but still it was in- the school, Mr. W. W. Hornell adequate. opened the main door of the new building and formally declared it open. Those present then entered and took their seats in the main hall, under the chairmanship of the Rev. Cheung Chuk-ling. The pro- ceedings opened with the School Hymn after which the Chairman offered prayer in Chinese.

Miss Davies presented a door key to Mr. Hornell, asking him to accept it as a memento of the occasion.

Mr. Hornell replied he accepted the key with pleasure.

The Headmistress then addressed the gathering in the following words:--

The site for a new building was given by the London Missionary Society. Half of this was made into a playground while the other was, to be used for the erection of classrooms. For some

years the plans were under discussion and in 1924 a committee was formed con- sisting of business men who under- took to collect funds for a building. Then came the strike of 1925 and before arrangements had been completed the committee ceased to function.

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In 1926 a fresh effort was made to carry out the scheme. The kindergarten building had to be erected first as we were no longer allowed to use the matshed in which they had temporarily been housed.

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On an occasion such as this, it is inevitable that he should pause, glance back over the past, take The time did not seem to warrant C00006006000000000060006006GOGCOCCOD ODE********0000+GOO stock of the present, and look for our approaching the committee ward into the future. We are who had promised, before the

School's Early History.

were

com-

meet to think especially about and strike, to help us, and there seem-and playground, the Kindergarten, who in the midst of a busy life yet tion. that by our efforts and our to rejoice in the completion of aed no alternative but to go ahead this main school building together i found time to act as hon. treasurer devotion we may prove ourselves building. But we cannot do that with such funds as we had. We with the furniture in it has been for the financial campaign; to Rev. not unworthy of our inheritance. without thinking, too, of that group had spent nearly $30,000.00. on the carried through at a cost of about Cheong Chuk-ling, who has ever

Mr. Hornell's Speech. rejoice the $120,000.00. We of people-changing from genera preparation of the site and

that given ungrudgingly of his time and.

Mr. Hornell said:-Eighty-four through the help that we have recounsel and who has curtalled his tion to generation, even from year playground and 35,000.00 on the ceived we are able to open Free of holiday in order to be with us here years ago Mrs. Legge started this to year-which has been, is, and Kindergarten. We had about

debt, and with a small balance for to-day; to Mr. Poon To-yung who school with seven pupils and great always will be the real school. $20,000.00 In donations, savings, furnishings, which are still needed. has carried through the secretarial faith. Mrs. Legge's vision reached "Others have laboured, and we have etc. and the Government had pro-

To-day there are on our school work in connexion with the col-far beyond the limitations of her entered into their labours". How mised dollar for dollar to the ca- then has this Ying Wa Girls' School tent of 850,000.00. We could see roll some 300 scholars, ranging ection of the funds; and to Miss (own life and one likes to think of come to be?

our way, therefore, to erect a build-from the kindergarten to the Fung Oi-hel, the extent of whose her now smiling as she watches ing of two storeys with an extra matriculation class. Of those who work from the time when the the procession which passes daily storey at the west end which might have already passed through the financial campaign was inaugurated along the Caine and Bonham roads Its beginnings go back 84 years, serve as a small assembly hall, school at least 15 are nurses, be- until to-day, when the statement of refer of course to the proces for it was in the year 1846 that, Building operations

sides several who are in training accounts has been issued and the sion of hundreds of Chinese girls in connexion with the famous menced in February 1927. The at present, ten are qualified doctors; work is complete, is known only to going to school in the morning and Anglo-Chinese College (founded by building was designed by Messrs. two are Y.W.C.A. secretaries; at those who have worked with her returning therefrom in the after- noon-cach looking amazingly neat. Dr. Morrison in Malacca and after Raven and Basto, and the work was least 60 have become teachers (of behind the scenes. wards removed by Dr. Legge to carried out by the Tung

We think, too, of some of those and businesslike in her school uni- Maamour own 14 Chinese women teachers Hongkong, that a school for girls Construction Company.

11 are old students); and far more who are no longer with us, of Dr.form and refreshingly cool even on was started by Mrs. Legge. It

than we can keep count of are (to Wan Man-kaal, to whose efforts we the hottest day. To me, who came must have needed great faith and

Financial Campaign. use the phrase which occurs again owe this Assembly Hall in which here six years ago from India, the vision in those days to see the pos- It was in May. 1927, that the and again in the pages of the Old we are now met; and of Miss Wong sight is still one of never failing than surprise and delight. Possibly my sibilities of developing the educa-suggestion was made by some of Girls' Magazine) "serving in the Ta'ing-lin, who gave more tion of Chinese girls in this colony, the old students that something

home."

twenty years of devoted service to surprise, but certainly not my that We do not wish for any consider-this school and who shared to the delight, is greater than and it is not surprising that the should be done by them to help for-able increase in numbers, though full in the hopes and plans and of Mrs. start was made with only seven ward the building scheme. It was

Legge's watching any rate, the vision pupils. In 1850 numbers had in-discovered that certain prominent there is room in this new building labours that some day it might have spirit At

of a worthy home.

which inspired Mrs. Legge in 1846 creased to 13-all boarders who members of the committee which for a certain small measure

has justified itself; for the Chinese were taught both Chinese and had been formed in 1924 were still growth. We desire rather to con-

Tribute to Miss Davies, been

In Hongkong have now decided, English. The records of this little sympathetic and ready to help.olidate what has already

that We would offer to Miss Davies; with their characteristic realism; school are not unbroken, but dur-Eventually a new committee was achieved, and to maintain

education of their ing most of the latter half of the formed-with this, important dif- personal touch with every scholar too, our gratitude. It is almost that the

a family forty-two years since she came to daughters is not only a domestic 19th, century the nucleus

a school ofference between it and the com- which makes boarding school was carried on inmittee of 1924-that this new com- rather than a machine. We want Hongkong, and it is she who work- benefit but also, a social, political & room over the LM.S. chapel atmittee was to be an advisory body. it to be possible for girls who have led for the erection of what we now and even national necessity. When

school,' and Wantsai. Day school work

who the University on the 11th March, Was The spade work we were to do our-grown up through the school to call the old also being developed at this time, selves..

go on from this school to train for mothered the small school-family 1912, opened its doors to students, and when Miss Davies started work

In August, 1927; the financial whatever work in life they may that came from Wantsai to live none but males were allowed to cross in 1891 she took charge of nine

launched. The choose. But we want always to re- here thirty years ago, and who has their threshold. It was not till Sep- campaign - WES girls' schools with come

of the member that it is our especial pri watched that school-family grow tember, 1921, that women students 500 directors and supporters scholars.

But it began to be felt that the scheme, together with teachers and vilege to have a hand in training into the Ying Wa Girls' School of were admitted to the University boarding-school at Wantsal could old girls, collected first. Then, the minds, the bodies, and the to-day. We rejoice exceedingly classes and their admission ever who will be that on the eve of her departure for then caused many a aage head to best be nurtured and developed if when the school reopened for the characters of those

this new building-the fulfilment of of 1929 we had 82 women students it were on the L.M.S. Compound, autumn term, the girls were given homemakers in the years to come. England she should be here to see shake with anxiety. At the close

their opportunity to take part. and in 1898-1899, the original The total amount collected

many dreams formally opened. in the University. We are- proud I feel that I must close this state-10f her it might well be said, St of them, and we wish there were building (which we have now learn- over 327.000.00 of which nearly ed to call the "old school") was 6,000.00 was raised by the girlsment on a note of gratitude. First, requiris monumentum circumspice. more,

Now, as we go forward, it is a This domestic revolution, for. it erected and the scholars-from Wan- of 1927, $5,000.00 by old students to all those who have in any way | tsal moved into their new quarters, and teachers, and about $16.000 by helped us to complete the building time not only for gratitude for is no less, has been effected by those which were formally opened in directors and supporters. Of this scheme. It is impossible to make what the past has given us and for devoted women who, in institutions. February 1900.

last amount $10,000.00 was collect mention of all-but we owe special the opportunity to carry on a great like this, have given themselves in

(Continued on Page 11.) ed by the late Dr. Wan Man-kasi thanks to Mr. Wong Kwok-shuen, work, but a time also for resolu

New Wing Erected.

was

In 1900 there were 34 pupils and from a friend of his. This gift two teachers. In 1007 there were was given on condition that one 47 pupils, with one master and two room was to be set apart in memory mistresses. In 1910, when the of the donor's wife--and to do this roads in the neighbourhood were we erected this Assembly Hall and opened to Chinese residences, daý | so completed the third storey. scholars began to come, and in

$120,000 Scheme, that year numbers rose to 65. In

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