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“...atmosphere of the China
coast.
“East is east and west is west and never the twain
shall meet.” Kipling knew his east, and so the Chefoo schools
are in no way Chinese, but English schools in a self-contained
little foreign settlement in the port of Chefoo. True we...”
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“...
and in the case of the Chefoo school remained an English
boarding school.
In the noble cause of examinations, China and cosmO'
politanism faded away. For such a school at the back of
beyond, some universally recognized exammination standard
had to be maintained, and so our scholastic efforts were all
directed towards three Oxford local examinations, correspond'
ing roughly to Junior and Senior Matriculation and a prelimin'
ary examination about the standard of the old Lower School.
The final of these, the entrance examination to Oxford uni'
versity, we regarded as the open sesame from our little world
of China, to anything in the great beyond of “the homelands”.
Of the curriculum suffice it to say, that the English
system differs from our Canadian one mainly in the division
of elementary and secondary schools. We had four years in
the elementary and seven in the secondary or High school,
and for the secondary period, boys and girls were in two
different schools. In the secondary school...”
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“...wheelbarrow? That is travel de
luxe, which no Cook’s tour can offer. We preferred not to
think of the trip back from the sunny south of China to
bleak, cold, wind-swept Chefoo in January, but even then
the two or three days of homesick misery soon gave way to
the delightful friendships of boarding school once more.
A ten year association from kindergarten to prefect-
ship, cemented by shared illicit midnight feasts, games, exams,
pranks perpetrated in lower school and detected in prefect
days, form a bond that the seven seas cannot break, and they
had to stand just that test, for at graduation we scattered to
the four corners of the earth. Wherever our parents hailed
from, were it England, Scotland, Ireland, the States, Australia
or Canada, even Sweden, France and Germany, there Chefoo-
ites returned. In post-war days the Chefoo schools saw even
one or two “White” Russian refugees, and these mixed, ap-
parently without contamination, with the daughters of the
Russian Consul, presumably “Red”. In...”
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IMPRESSIONS of the EXHIBITIONS.
“I’m sure you are going to enjoy it”, a friend told
me recently as he was enthusing over the yearly Exhibitions
that are given by the three C.I.M. schools at Chefoo. I was
a stranger in Chefoo, and was not particularly interested in
‘the Exhibitions’ (as he and other Chefoo people call them).
It was not until I had heard at least a half dozen others,
of reputation equally reliable, with glistening eyes, wax
eloquent on this darling theme, that I felt enough interest
tn it to even inquire the date on which it was to be held
this year.
However, when the warm afternoon of July twenty-
fourth arrived, it found me, together with several hundred
others, seated in the C. I. M. Memorial Hall watching, while
seventy or eighty boys and girls of the Preparatory School
streamed into, and quietly filled up the white tiers of seats
on the platform before us. Everybody began to clap, so I
did too, to keep up appearances.
There were yet a few minutes before things were...”
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“...air-drome is situated on the soldiers' drillground
across from the East Fort, which has been changed into a vast
stadium, seating over a thousand people. From this stadium people
have a wonderful view, when the boys and girls from the C.I.M.
Schools exhibit their prowess in flying, on the traditional Exhibition
Days.
The business section of Chefoo extends from second to fourth
beach, and the large office-buildings such as McMullan & Co. and
each departmental store, have a landing-field for aeroplanes, on the
roof.
A railway, which was laid behind the hills, connects
Chefoo with Weihaiwei and all the northern cities. The hills are no
longer bare and rugged, for a lovely residential section has come into...”
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“Chefoo.......25”, the C.S.A. Newsletter, in its dainty
silver cover, was eagerly perused by. present scholars and we take this
opportunity to send our thanks and to offer our congratulations to the
Great Britain Branch of the Chefoo Schools Association on its Silver
Jubilee. The following items of news, came to hand from other sources.
Under the title of “Holiday Adventure” “Plucky
Swim in Teeth of Squall” there recently appeared a stirring
account of Miss Gladys Evans’ rescue of a party of Japanese
from an oarless fishing boat which dragged its anchor, whilst
they were using it as a base for their bathing.
By the time that the occupants realised their predica-
ment, they were being blown out to sea, towards the rocky
coast of Hamazaki, so one of them swam back to the receding
shore to summon aid. No boats were nearer than two or
three miles, so the young student laid hold on two planks,
and at this juncture...”
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