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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932.

PRIZE DAY AT ST. obtaining

MARY'S

HELD IN IMPOSING NEW BUILDING

AWARDS PRESENTED

Another milestone in the pro- gress of the St. Mary's School, the Kowloon branch of the Canon sian Institute, was colebrated yes-

in the matter of should be that our English version Distinctions; five in Engilah; of the Bible lies under the ban of three in Biblical Knowledge, one school-masters, Boards of Studies, in Arithmetic, and ons in Music, and aft 'who devise courses of read- Fr. Byrne closed the reporting and examinations in English with an appreciation of the work literature: that among our 'pre- of the architects, Messrs. Haze scribed books' we find Chaucer's land and Gonella, and that of Mr. Prologue, we and Hamlet, we find find Papa's A. Vannini, who was responsible Paradise Lost, we

and Man, again for the beautiful Terazzo work so Essay

again, but the book of Job much in evidence.

nover; The Vicar of Wakefield and Gray's Elegy often, but Ruth or

Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom ARISTOCRATS OF Laalal,, it is teading. IX),

Father Byrne's Remarks.

After reading the Report, Ex. Byrne remarked:

It is too late in the evening for

never,"

on

Note well that he is advocating

the inclusion of these books in the

want programme of English subjects; he impossible to

their dinner. (Laughter). Never- contends, and it

deny hla contention, that the. Eng-

terday, when visitors and friends speechos. The young people want of the Institute were given an optheir prizes; the old people portunity to admire the School in its now surroundings a beautiful building which had recently been completed on a terrace overlooking ground behind Rosary Church, and occupying part of the old site.

The event ная incorporated into the annual prize-giving cure mony, which took place in the new Hall in the presence of a large gathering of parents, aup- well-wishers. porters and other

IIIN Among those present were. Lordship Bishop Valtorts and the Director of Education. Mr. G. P. the de Martin, who gave away prizes at the conclusion of a musical entertainment given by the pupils.

theless, na I have been asked to say lah version of the Bible is one of something, I would suggest to

shell,

vaster. It grow in the occupation of each until at last it outgrew all shelle and, leaving them behind, launched out into the freedom of the great unchartered sea. The poet con- cludes with a moral:

"Build thee more stately man-

sions, O my soul, While the swift sensons roll; Let each new home, more noble

than the last, Shut thee from Heaven by a

dome more vast, Till thou at length art free

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young and old alike that they carry the greatest achievements in the away with them from this func-English language: "The Bible con- tion, the thought enshrined in atrols its enemy Gibbon as surely as The chief fenture of this build-poem which, unhappily omitted in it haunts the curious music of a ing, which is of reinforced con-

moat of our English Anthologies,ght sentence of Thackeray's. It crete pillars filled in with brick-deserves a place in every 19th cen-la at once a monument, an example of Eng- work and finished off with Shang-turs collection. I refer to the and. (best of all) a well

Empr. of Asia hai plaster, is a handsome-looking Chambered Nautilus of O. Wish indefiled, no stagnant water.Empr. of Canada June 3 June 6

but quick, running, curative, Capt. of Russia porch over the main entrance giv Holmes. The Nautilus of poetic freshing, vivifying." We do not Empr. of Japan Ing out to the terrace, and the sur-

fancy was a shell-fish which, year roundings with its lawn and apa- by year, built on its old shell a new advocate, on behalf of St. Mary's or of any other school, that the cious open spaces constituting an

one, bigger and

Bible enter into the English pro ideal centre for the ever growing

But we should strongly educational activities undertaken

ramme. by the Italian Sistera on this side

urge that, as in the Cambridge of the harbour.

School Certificate, it be one of the subjects that may be chosen by the English those who will in group. If such rank be accorded to it, we have in our mind a Biblical Knowledge programme which would be highly cultural from every should con- point of view. We template a book of Job from which

not the school child learne

the number of camels or nÄKER which of Job possessed, but the depth vision of a great soul who, in the by life's unresting sea.

hour of sorrow, can discover the In a material sense, to begin with, St. Mary's School has follow-wonders of the Creator in creation, ed the advice. The old shell has and bid his friends "speak to the earth and it shall answar thee: been found too small for the grow and tie fishes of the sea shall tell."

hus tenants. So

arisen ing

We should hope that the lesson the beautiful new building which

of Scripture more than any other. does shut them from Heaven "by a lesson would challenge the learner dome more vast." But to the Com:"to build more stately mansions; as munity of St. Mary's the material the swift seasons roll." We should application of the poem is the least important of all; it is the hope that those who, reverently and lovingly, had assimilated the litera- vastness of the moral structure of ture of the Bible, would not only education which they have at heart have assimilifted what is richest in Those responsible for the directhe world's prose and poetry, but tion of Education in the Colony are that, in the happy words of Pro- Tenvisaging a wider outlook in fessor Moulton, they would realise educational life. I am quite sure the inner and spiritual unity. And visited St. that St. Mary's and all the other that the mission of the final book Mary's twice. Whilst comment-schools whose interests it is my

is to make this unity with its to represent on the

thought that the testimony of ing on the fact that some of the privilege

Education Board, will welcome E

Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." were over-crowded,

From all over the field of prophecy,

Headmistress's. Report. The Headmistress's report, on the progress minde during the past year, was road by Rev. Fr. Byrne, SJ., who said In part:

In spite of difficulties connect- ed with the building of the new was more wing, the attendance than satisfactory. The highest roll-call was registered in April, 430 pupils. Through the year at tendance was good.

Health.

The Medical Officer for Schools, Dr. E. M. Minett,

class-rooms

did

on

which is spiritual poetry, are gathered gems of symbolism to

make a crown for the consumma- ion of prophecy. All history, past, present and to come, sums up as

Ahe admitted that all was being wider outlook. There is one point done to cope with the passing dif- which is of capecial interest to ficulties. The large trees of the them. It is the only point shady playground offered spien-which I shall touch this evening. It

is the Biblical Knowledge paper. for opportunity

open-air

There is an idea abroad that the classes. The health was good.

Biblical Knowledge paper is n Inspection.

"soft snap" in the Examination the Kingdom of the World becom- world. I think that the criticism ing the Kingdom of Christ."

Should this happy revision Mr. J. Ralston, Inspector of is not without some foundation. English Schools, visited St. Mary's The recently-published. Education Programme be accomplished is

Hongkong, I am sure that on October 22 and 23. He found Your Book, after examining many Mary's would rejoice much more in the discipline of the school excel excellent Religious Syllabuses in the wider fields of knowledge into lent, and the atmosphere a bright | English schools, passes to thic

which they might lead their chil- and happy one. The work done in "colourless" ones. Amongst them dren than in the more spaciour the four divisions of the Kinderit mentions a syllabus which in hails, which after all can be easily

splendid. The its three-year course for the Old classes

gauged in a mensuration claya. runs through to book-work in all classes was very Testament

(Applause).

garten

Was

of

St.

clean and neat and carefully correct. Nehemlah and then is repeated in Before the function closed, Mr. Knowledge the upper part of the school; mean-G. P. de Martin spoke a few words, ed: and the General

in the very while the six-year course and manner of answering

drawing attention to the devoted satisfactory. He

lensed New Testament follows round and work of the Sisters on behalf of with the standard of the diet-round the Gospels for five of them the pupils and urging them to live tion testa which he gave.

and then to the Acts at the end." up to the fair name of the School. The needle-work was examined In Hongkong we are not even as by Mr. Ralston. She found it to excursive.

PRIZE WINNERS.

be of a high standard, the sylin- It is impossible to understand bus of the upper classes being Western culture without some comprehensive, and the work knowledge of the Book which has shown of a type that will be use-supplied the West with the fabric Scholarship-Beatrice Pestonji, ful to the girls in domestle life. of its religious ideals, and the Winner of the Lugard Scholarship

University Local Examinations, moral sense on, which they are to for 1932-83.

Dr. Gomes' Scholarship for good Two pupils were presented for rest. In the striking lectures on the Matriculation. One passed, the "Art of Heading," delivered at conduct, punctuality, and attendance. Helena da Silva, Elsa da Silva, the other secured the Seator Cer- Cambridge University, Sir Arthur

Gwendoline Lani, Edith L, Maria tificate. Of the 10 who entered Quiller Couch made a strong appeal Wong, Ireno Silva, Cinie Remedios, for the Senior eight passed; one for the inclusios of Biblical books Elsie Wong, Mina Kor, Mary Lam, obtaining distinction in English, in the English Tripos. Cambridge Ida da Silva, Lucy Ho, Lucia Sequeira, Garcia, Beatrice LAW, and another in Biblical Know-was then revising her Tripos pro- Thelma lege. For the Junior Examina-grurame.

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