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“...CHEFOO, N. CHINA (1 Jus tan MAY 1932. 1
CONTENTS.
Editorial 94 Guides and Rangers 106
Mass Meeting 96 Football 116
Winter Holidays 98 Athletic Sports 120
Impressions 99 G. S. Hockey 122
Lit. and Deb. Soc. too Prep. Sch. Corner 124
Correspondence ... 103 B. S. Form List 127
Lectures ... ... 104 Old Boys’ & Girls’, Section 128
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EDITORIAL.
Ylj OST editors of the Cherfusian before me have begun
the first article with the phrase, “Again the inevi-
table editorial’’, or with words to that effect. As most of
the readers of this magazine will have already realised bow
inevitable the editorial is, I shall not reiterate the fact.
Being an editor is a hard job. Most readers pro-
bably think' that the editor has nothing to do except to
write the editorial. Far from it. To the editor falls the
herculean task of collecting the articles and other contri-
butions for the magazine. No one can realise the im-
mensity of this task until he or she has 'been editor.
This is what...”
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“...96
THE MASS MEETING.
During the term strange notices appeared on the
noticeboards of the Girls' and Boys’ Schools, culminating
in the announcement of a mass meeting to be held in the
girls’ playroom. So much curiosity Was aroused that almost
every boy and girl attended the meeting, where they dis-
covered that it lad been oiganised by the Clefusian Com-
mittee to stir up interest in the publication of the magazine.
The majority present promised a yearly susbcripiion before
they left the room.
31 MONG the strange sights which I have had the good
fortune to see was a large Pagan Mass, as I often heard
it called, iwhich took place on the twenty-ninth day or
Miarch in the year of grace, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-two according to our reckoning.
For many days 1 had heard the younger slaves
shout and say, “Wherefore do our gods thus tease, putting
up wise statements, the meanings of which we cannot un-
derstand?”
Then took they me to a small board suspended on
one of the walls cl' their...”
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“...starting at 7.0 o’clock and arriving back at about
10.0. We had Christmas dinner at the Girls’ School and
after an interval the usual Christmas Games. Father
Christmas appeared and distributed presents to adults as
well as to the children. The eBlebrations ended about
fi.30 after a very enjoyable day.
From Jan. 25-29 the C.S.S.M. meetings were held
in the Southern Baptist Compound, Mrs. Weller talking
to the Senior boys and girls and Mr. Weller to the Juniors.
These holidays were the warmest Chefoo has had for
a considerable time, there being only tiwo heavy snowfalls.
The Weather was, however, cold enough for skating, which
was taken up with great cnthusiam bv all who could pro-
cure skates. S. L. R.
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TAKE NOTE
We have been asked by the Boys’ School* Prefects to
announce that they are beginning a' picture gaillery to be
filled with the photographs of past prefects. Already se-
veral photographs have arrived but there are still about a
hundred needed to make the gallery complete.
Will...”
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“...your first issue, a legacy, is one of
my most treasured possessions.
Youthful Reader.
2. Dear Editor,
Yon will kindly inform your readers that the Home
Council, acting on Board of Education Instructions, has de-
cided that as from February 1 next, Arithmetic shall not
be taught in the Schools.
This decision is to avoid a waste of time. It is made
possible by the wonderful accuracy and the elaborate na-
ture of the automatic calculating machines, which have
been perfected in recent years.
Council Secretary.
3. Dear Editor,
The delays of Transatlantic air-mail service are be-
coming unendurable. A letter posted from my home in
America yesterday morning was not delivered to me here
until after 1 p.m. today. Chefoo. School Captain.
4. Dear Editor,
I use the ordinary forcing chemicals for my plants,
but the radishes which I planted one morning had not
come up the next. I wonder if any other reader has had
a similar experience? II Former....”
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“...buildings to the Home Block when
the aero vacuum cleaner accidently descended too low, so
that the powerful suction drew him into the dust receptacle.
The dustman-pilot, however, noticed the mishap, and.
alighting at the spot, at once extricated the unconscious
boy. S. A. D.
(>. Dear Sir,
We have heard that three thousand small silver
coins, know as “threepenny bits” which were withdrawn
from circulation three generations ago, have just been un-
earthed at Aberdeen, during excavations. Could not the
schools procure a real live one for the TTb classroom?
Anxious.
,7" HIS term we have been favoured with a surprisingly
interesting series of lectures.
The first was given during the first week of the term,
as the lecturer was on his way to Shanghai. Mr. Edgar of
Tibet entertained us for an hour with information about
the country from which he had first come and with stories of
travel and missionary endeavour, adding that spice of hu-
mour which establishes immediate contact between the lec-
turer and...”
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“...slides. After the audience had been suitably entertained
by “Oh Jemima” and other ditties from the Girls’ School,
Mr. Duncan proceeded hopefully. The lecture was very
comprehensive, starting from Andre’s balloon expedition in
the last century and closing with Sir Hubert Wilkins’ at-
tempt to go by submarine to the North Pole last year. -
rl he End of Term Concert was held on the last Mon-
dav of term. The programme consisted chiefly of piano-
forte pieces and songs by various members of both Schools.
The last item was a humorous lecture on “Birds”, illustrat-
ed copiously with lantern slides. Mr. Duncan accomplish-
ed the difficult feat of entertaining an audience for half an
hour with spicy humour. His remarks were frequently
interrupted by the deliberate attempts o;f the lantern op-
erators to create a disturbance and still more frequently by
the peals of laughter indulged in by the audience as they
saw familiar faces on the screen. It was an excellent
wind-up to a good concert. A. D....”
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“...106
THE FIRST CHEFOO
OF HOW THE FIRST CHEFOO COM-
PANY CAME TO BE. So it if ell on a time
that a Guide journeyed from a far country
and came into China, and there after many
days she let cry an assemblage, and it was
provided that it should be at Michaelmas
at Chefoo by the seaside.
came
what
words
know
but I
great
proclaim the laws of the Order,
they might enchieve.
And thither
all those that were cryed for to hear
the Guide would say. And these
she said: 1 wot not whether ye do
of the Order to which I am sworn:
could wish that ye be joined in the
cause of Guiding. Whereupon the
and the
many tests and witting they might enchieve. Where-
upon with more joy the company did betake six goodly and
trustable ones from among them, and forthwith these six
did each choose other seven to be of their household.
And thereupon there was much talk as to the names of these
households, and it pleased them much to choose each one
the name of a bird; for surely the birds do wonderlv em-
body in their soaring...”
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“...109
1ST CHEFOO RANGER COMPANY.
Motto:- “ SER V ABO FTDEM.”
“He who would valiant be
Gainst ail disaster,
Let him in constancy
Follow the Master.
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
To be a pilgrim.’’
“1 promise on my honour that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and the King (or my Country),
To help other people at all times.
To obey the Guide Law,
To render Service bv taking this promise into a.
wider World.’’
With these words on her lips, and hand at full sa-
lute, in the presence of the Company, the Ranger is en-
rolled, thus becoming a member of a noble Fellowship
of Service known and loved the World over. (What a
wonderful day it was for us—-Rangers! Shall we ever
forget it? or the days that followed?) Let us pull out the
Log Book and have a look at the records.
Activities registered are many and varied. Rangers
have been preparing tests in which they have to—
Read and send messages in Morse
Point out and name a certain number of constella-
tions
Tie seven kinds...”
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“...112
When all the world was young, lads,
And all the trees were green,
The 1st Chefoo Guides, lads,
Upon the hills were seen.
They walked along the ridge, lads,
Until they found a place
Where they could sing their songs, lads,
With such becoming grace!
When all the world is old, lads,
And all the trees are brown,
You’ll1 never find a Guide, lads,
Who’ll meet you with a frown.
For when they sing, their faces, lads,
Are worth your while to see,
They smile from ear to ear, lads,
That Chelfoo company.
Wren Patrol
(With apologies to Charles Kingsley)...”
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“...order to join her parents on their way home
from China.
Ailsa Carr is now in training for China at the C.I.M. Training Home,
and hopes to sail in the Autumn of this year.
Morris Carr is continuing his medical studies at Bart’s Hospital,
London.
Edith Coulthard is teaching Georgra-phy in the Girls’ County School
in Bishop Auckland. She is Secretary of the Bishop Auckland Geo-
graphical Association, and also “runs” a Junior Branch of the League
of Nations Union.
N. Dansey Smith writes: “I left Chefoo in August, 1931, and
travelled home by way of the U.S.A. After two weeks in England
I was accepted by the Medical Missionary Association, and am now
doing my pre-medical year (rabbits, frogs, leaves, volts and nitric acid
etc.) at the East London College. T am also rowing for the College
second Eight. I also help at the Bethnal Green Medical Mission
Sunday School.”
Christopher Fairclough works at the Asiatic Petroleum Company just
off Bishopsgate, E.C. He is a member of the Stoke Newington
Crusader...”
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“...still at the Edinburgh University. Reg.
Squire was in England a short time ago, and has now sailed for China.
Dorothy Stark is on her way back to China to live with her parents.
Dur good wishes go with her for a speedy recovery from her recent
illness.
Mary Sturt writes: “I am at school in Yeovil for a year, working
for Senior Cambridge, which I hope to lake in December. It is
quite nice to be back at school after a year and a half’s rest—the
school is quite nice, though not a quarter as nice as Chefoo! My
sister Barbara is living in Birmingham with relations and is taking a
six months’ dressmaking course with dress designing, until
she can go to Norlands to start training as a Child’s Nurse.”
Gladys Warren. “I came home via Canada, and spent three months
in Toronto, where, of course. I saw a lot of Old Chefooites. and went
to the November Reunion. Now I am studying for Matric., and
after that I’m not sure what I'm going to do.”
Ernest and Jack Weller are still ‘.schoolboys’ at the Royal Grammar...”
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