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“...194 CHEFOO, N. CHINA ' Chefusian SEPTEMBER 1930. CONTENTS. Editorial 194 ( Retirement of Mr. and Jenkyn View the Land 196 : Mrs. McCarthy 212 Poem 201 : ; Poem 208 Drawings 199 ; ; Prep. School Corner 217 Exhibitions (Prep.) 200 ; ; Sports (Boating) 218 (Girls) 203 < (Tennis) 219 (Boys) 206 : (Cricket) 220 Historical Assoc, of Chefoo 210 ‘ Notices 223 Poem 204 ‘ Drawings 224 In Memoriam 227 $ :fc EDITORIAL. jn oes time fly more quickly during holidays or in term time? Opinions differ widely, but it would be hard for any days to fly faster than they did last term. Mr. Robinson led the Opening Service, held in the Quad, on account of the fact that the G.S. and part of the B.S. were in quarantine. “Workers together with GOD’’ was the thought he impressed upon us as we set out on this last term of the school year. A concert was arranged for Monday evening, May the nineteenth. The major part of the programme was performed by boys and girls from the school. Others who favoured us...”
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“...saw, owe their inspiration to Miss Eames’ admirable per- formance on that occasion. Rumour had it that when at long last our quarantine should end, the hoisted flag and a holiday would proclaim the joyous release, but as it happened on Foundation Day we thought that the promise was redeemed., so it was a pleasant surprise, when at lunch-break next day we were dismissed for our first bathe of the season, and picnic din- ner on the rocks. About the middle of June, Mr. and Mrs. Willett arrived in Chefoo for a visit, of a month or so. During this time we had the privilege more than once of hearing Mr. Willett speak, and on the evening of July 2nd. with the aid of lantern slides, he took us for a flying trip, two thousand miles across China. We felt quite “bamboozled” after hearing his witty account of the numerous uses to which the native of Szechuan puts the stem, leaves, and root of bamboo. OXFORDS. Who can forget so soon? and yet it does seem ages since that week of fearful and yet thrilling...”
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“...200 — gT his is not a “prunes and prisms’’ article, but a few remarks anent the Glorious Day, and what the present Prepites said and did thereon, for the benefit of absent ChefoO-lovers. The occasion was unique, in that Mr. McCarthy oc- cupied the Chair, and his word to the boys and girls was worthy of their long remembrance. Of the two old-time games of marbles referred to in his talk, one had the de- lightful name of “Portuguese Spanks’’, but was not de- lightful in its selfish motto, “Everything for me, nothing for you’’, while the other, with its cry of “Knuckle down, stiff, tight, and hard!” sowed seed-thoughts which made for grit and true manliness in years to come. You, who know the speaker well, will appreciate his apt choice of parable for his young hearers, and can picture the quiet strength of the man as he bent his bow and winged his arrows with unerring aim. The programme was as varied and as enjoyable as any in the past. Some of us heard the musical rendering of A. A. Milne’s...”
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“...210 THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF CHEFOO. Some time ago the notice in a home paper that, “Two hundred soldiers whose loyalty was suspected, recently created a disorder at Chefoo”, called forth a few lines entitled “Where is Chefoo?” and the conclusion to which the writer came was that it lay, “By Shanghai’s outer barbican”! Such ignorance is surely inexcusable, especially as in another line he suggests that this renowned watering place may lie near Timbuctoo! In past years Chefoo has more than once been thrown into the lime-light of public notice. In 1858 it was opened as a Treaty port, and in 1860, Missionaries and foreign merchants came to settle. The name Chefoo has been transferred from a little village on the Bluff to Yentai on the other side of the bay, though the Chinese still use the latter name. The French fleet was here in the winter of 1860, then after being defeated by the Koreans they returned in the winter of 1866. During this time a French Squadron was quartered in these...”
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“...During the Boxer Rising and the Revolution, Chefoo came in for alarms, and even in the late Nationalist troubles not much of real importance happened in the port, except that during 1928 and 1929, lying between Muhping and Fushan, which were each in their turn besieged by Generals Chang Tsung-Chang and Liu Chen-Nien re- spectively, Chefoo saw very severe fighting. In 1925 the “Battle of Chefoo” did not bring any serious con- sequences to the foreign residents, and even when, at a later date, it was reported in a home paper that all foreigners had evacuated to Wei-hai-wei, they really underwent no more terrifying experiences than war-like rumours, though there was pillaging at times in the native quarters. The political situation of China is not yet in a settled enough position to speak confidently of the future, and it may yet bring this port into such prominence that no reader of the newspapers, even at home, will need to wonder, “Where is Chefoo”. Ed. A HOSPITAL HOLIDAY. So early at the...”
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“...RETIREMENT OF MR. AND MRS. MCCARTHY. FAREWELL GATHERING AT CHEFOO. The lawns on the north of the China Inland Mission Boys’ School were the scene of an impressive function on the afternoon of Aug. 6th., when a large number of parents and friends of the School met to show their affection and esteem for Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy. It was fitting that such a gathering should represent not only the past and present boys and the parents, but also members of the missionary body in the town and residents in the Settlement, for, during their thirty-five years of devoted service in Chefoo, Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy have earned the deep respect and admiration of men of every shade of opinion. There is always a note of sadness about the last goodbyes, but this deeper note only lent the more colour and tone to the richer harmonies of gratitude, honour and love which were prominent in all the proceedings of the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy are leaving Chefoo but “their works do follow them”. They have left an undying...”
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“...for Mr. McCarthy’s ministry. Today over 150 Chefoo boys and girls were in Christian service in the foreign field or in the homelands. This in itself was a great monument to their life work; another was the fact that in 1918 statistics showed that eighty percent of the Old Boys were serving in some kind of war-work. A brief interval followed this speech. Mrs. Str.ausser played two violin solos with her wonted accuracy of execution and beauty of ex- pression. Then followed two presentations, the first by Mr. Chalklev, of the Boys’ Staff, of a cheque for $805 on behalf of the friends in Chefoo; the second by Mr. W. Thomas, of the Spanish Leffafion, Peking, of a cheque for $970, on behalf of the parents and ‘‘Old Boys”. H.B.M. Consul, Mr. R. S. Pratt was called upon to pay the final tribute to the service of Mr. McCarthy to foreigners in China. His address is printed verbatim below:— ‘‘I am only too conscious that there are many people in Chefoo much more competent than I, a comparative new...”
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“...is this—that, in spite of all that I had heard up and down China during the 25 years that I have been in the country about the excellence of the Chefoo schools, I remained somewhat incredulous. It was not in fact until I had had the good fortune to be stationed in Chefoo myself that a very brief acquaintance with the school knooked the bottom out of my prejudices and made of me another enthusiastic admirer of every aspect of the Chefoo education, the Chefoo atmosphere and the Chefoo tradition. That is a pretty disgraceful confession to make but I would plead as some excuse for my graceless attitude that, without the evidence of one’s own eyes and ears, it is rather difficult to believe that, with all the handicaps inseparable from location in China to contend with, a school has really been created that can look any of our homeland Public Schools in the face and not fear comparison....”
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“...enter- tainment that Chefoo has to offer. They come round every year like a breath of clean fresh air in the rather materialistic routine of life in a China Treaty Port, and are so redolent of home memories, home school scenes and that essential wholesomeness of youth, which we miss so much in China, that I feel that I am really not to be blamed for not having anticipated their significance before I experienced it for myself. It is in the imponderables that the significance lies—the things that can be felt but hardly described. A conscientious parent must feel that the touchstone of a good school is not so much the academic suc- cesses that it can show, important as those are, as the state of feeling among the boys and between the boys and masters—the atmosphere, in other words. The intimate contact which such occasions as these Prize Distributions afford leaves no room for doubt about that. One is apt to take a school like this for granted. Perhaps indeed schools as good are common enough...”
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“...out first, second or third. The person who gets the most marks gets the pendant. The pendant is a small silver shield. On the pendant it has “C.I.M.P.S. 1930”. ' Most of the prizes are sent from the Comradeship (for China) in England. Miss Kendon showed Mrs. McCarthy the prizes and Mrs. McCarthy gave them out. Jimmy Moore got the most prizes and he got the pendant. RUMOURS. We have a nice picture about Hiawatha. E— sent us a picture of him, and he is growing whiskers, now, but if he comes to Chefoo this summer he won’t be growing whiskers. Miss Kendon made a shop with spades and balls. We have lots of straeberries and some straeberries are all squised and they have shugere but the other kind is straeberries without squising. Two girls got operation on mastoid. Dr. Dilley took the operation and came out successful. Traffic between the Boys’ School and the Prep. School has in- creased this term, and the Prep. School has repaved the path leading ■. to the front gate. We understand that the...”
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“...Sch. Cert. S.T. ’30. E. H. Weller. P.S. ’21-’24; B.S. W.T. ’24; Long Swim 1 mile S.T. ’26, 2 miles ’27; Ox. Jun. S.T. ’28; Boating 2nd. crew Cap. S.T. ’30; Choir W.T. ’28; ent. Sch. Cert. S.T. ’30. N. Pedersen. B.S. W.T. ’25; Long Swim 1 mile ’29; Ox. Jun. S.T. ’28; Football 1st. XI. W.T. ’28; Colours Sp. T. ’30; Tennis Six S.T. ’30; Boating 4th. crew Cap. S.T. ’29, 2nd. crew Cap. S.T. ’30; ent. Sch. Cert. S.T. ’30. G. M. Milne. B.S. Sp. T. ’27; ent. Ox. Jun. S.T. ’30. V ‘ v On behalf of the schools we should like to give Mr. and Mrs. Bruce a very hearty welcome as they come to take up the work in the Boys’ School which Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy are now laying down, and to wish them very much joy and success in their time here. Tn the Easter Holidays Miss Willoughby returned from furlough to the Girls’ School Staff. Miss Twidale, too, after working for some years in the interior is again teaching music here. We would' take this opportunity of welcoming them back, (and of welcoming Miss Olive...”
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“...following statement:— So long as the Chefoo Schools Association was publishing a magazine for the Old Boys and Girls the Chefusian Committee felt it would be unwise to insert material about former members of the schools unless the Association approached the Committee on this point. Recently however, correspondence has been passing between the C.S.A. repre- sentative in England and Australia, and Chefoo. Consignments of Chefusians are now being sent regularly to these countries, and it seems probable that the Chefusian will become a very strong link between the past and present members of the Schools. Naturally distance prevents satisfactory arrangements being made very quickly, but our readers may rest assured that all is being done that can be, to expedite a scheme that will please all parties. Since the Chefusian has now run into eight issues and appears to have gained the confidence of Old Boys and Girls, parents and present members of the schools, there seems to be little doubt that...”