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“...CHEFOO, N. CHINA Chefusian FEBRUARY 1934.
CONTENTS
School Chronicle 261 The Good Old Days 279
Is it worth while? 263 Public Debate • 280
A Leaf from the Past 266 Lectures 283
A Dream before Exams. ... 267 Oxford Exams 285
B.S. Lit & Deb. Soc. 269 Sports 287
Wheelbarrow-Driying 271 Xmas Celebrations 291
Longs 272 Guide Meeting 292
Prep. Sch. Corner 275 Sailing Experiment 293
The Good Old Times 277 Old Boys and Girls 297
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SCHOOL CHRONICLE
/Z HIS term has satisfied us all by its almost clean bill of
health, its matches—swimming, cricket, football and
basketball and finally, its holidays, especially the Oxford holi-
day which followed the arrival of the results.
The Boys’ School Swimming Sports, after being post-
poned some days because of boils, were carried out, with the
help of a lighter, at the Second beach pier. Mrs. Yorkston
kindly presented the cup to J. D. Moore, the winner, at the
end of the proceedings. The School Football team has again
been able...”
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“...designed to
cut through the Prep. School Bathing shed, another has been
built a little nearer the sea and a stable though small building
has been erected as a bathing-shed for the San. During
these operations a section of the north wall of the Boys’
School garden, mostly the part immediately behind the Staff
tennis-court in front of the school, has been removed. The
second matter is the inauguration of the Chefoo General
Omnibus Company, which runs Ford ‘buses from the Ninghai
Gate to the West Motor-Station by no less than five different
routes. These two instances show the slow progress of Chefoo
towards advancement.
In closing we would like to thank Miss Bond, who
has so ably managed the publication of the Chefusian in the
Girls’ School since Miss McCarthy’s time, and Mr. Houghton,
who has done so in the B.S. since the first issue. We wish
them a very happy furlough before their return to this,
the scene of their labours....”
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“...263
IS IT WORTH WHILE?
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T1 fifteen-year old boy is sitting in the small study of a
Cz language-student in a town nearly four hundred miles
up the Yangtse. As he talks of the Boys’ School at Chefoo and
sips a cup of steaming hot cocoa, a conversation somewhat
as follows takes place:
“I suppose you have a school magazine?”
“No! at least we’ve got a thing called ‘The Magnet’.
Va always get it up, but it’s no good.”
“Just a form mag., you mean?”
“Yes, but they have it printed.”
“It certainly seems strange for the School not to have
a magazine. You ought to start one. Can’t you get
someone on the Staff interested?”
“You can’t expect ME to do anything.”
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Time and the scene shift. It is a year later and the
language-student, now installed as a master at the Boys’
School, hears a knock at the door. Since his arrival the
previous term, he has been awaiting an opportunity to launch
a magazine. The boy previously mentioned, now a prefect,
enters with the Head Prefect.
“Couldn’t we...”
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“...Flagstaff at the Girls’ School made
this issue particular1y popular.
Space permits of only a selection of the more interest'
ing features, the mention of which will bring back vivid
recollections to many. For example, the C.S.S.M. house'
parties in Aug. 1929, the rendering of Stainer’s Crucifixion
in the Spring Term of 1930, the retirement of Mr. and Mrs.
McCarthy in August and the coming of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce;
the printing of the words and music of the School Song, the
intense excitement of the “Chefoo Borough Bye'Election”,
the Jubilee number with its seven photos and plan of the
Compound, the account of the generous gift of a new raft by
the Old Boys and Girls and the inclusion of a section of news
from them; the formation of companies of Guides and Rangers
in the Girls’ School, the installation of central heating in
the schools, the first Public Debate and the record of the
laying of the Foundation stones for the new buildings.
Surely, even merely as a School record, the magazine
has been...”
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“...the Shanghai Police Force,
later in the term, told us in the short time at his disposal
all that was possible about this body of officers organised for
the control of Shanghai. Although he hesitated to give us
any blood-curdling stories of his escapades in the Force, yet
he told us enough to whet our curiosity and to realise the
dangers to which members are exposed. He touched very
clearly on the duties, departments and training of the Foreign
police.
Mr. Richardson’s Pilgrimage from Pmgyao to Chefoo
left us much the merrier. He and his companion had most
amusing experiences, a number of breakdowns and little to
eat on the way. They travelled over some very bad roads
in a Morris Oxford, which is now known all over the Com-
pound as “Gladys”.
We were particularly privileged to hear Mr. Heerens,
Professor of History at Tsinan, lecture on the “League of Na-
tion”. Most of us felt we had known next to nothing about
the League prior to this lecture. Many interesting slides
showed the important...”
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“...289
/T" HIS building continues to play an important part in the
varied activities of a large compound. It is now regu-
larly used for the Sunday services, the Saturday night Com-
pound Prayer-Meeting, the Monthly Missionary Prayer-
Meeting for Chefoo, and for two Singing Practices for the
Lower Forms of the Boys’ School every week. At the end
of term and on other occasions it is used for school concerts
and during the winter lectures are given here once a fortnight.
Here too, of course, take place the annual Exhibitions. The
new Co-Tuition building is only a few yards west of the
Memorial Hall.
Aug. 29 Mr. Stevens
Sept. 23 The Headmaster
10 Mr. J. Yorkston
17 Mr. J. McKenzie
24 Miss H.M. Bond
Oct. 1 Mr. L.E. Jordan
8 Mr. J. McKenzie
SCHOOL SERVICES.
(Opening
Subject:
15 Miss J.T. Lucia
22 Mr. G.H. Booth
39 Mr. J.N. Duncan
Nov. 5 Mr. G.F. Browne
12 Mr. S.G. Martin
19 Mrs. Andrews
20 Mr. S. Houghton
Service)
Building
John the Baptist
The Water from the Well
The Gainon of Scripture
The Christian...”
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“...291
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS.
/]T HIS year instead of the usual efforts to obtain food by
Carol-singing we used our voices for the purpose of
collecting money for the deserving poor of Chefoo. Mr.
Houghton introduced a couple of new carols and ably con-
ducted our singing.
The B. S., following their ancient tradition, belaboured
one another with pillows while members of the G. S. gave
their mistresses stockings. It is whispered that one stocking
was dropped in a bath.
Dr. Judd took the morning service after which every-
one united in the Girls’ School dining-room to celebrate
Christmas with its usual good cheer. The food left nothing
to be desired and Miss Williams and her assistants deserve
the heartiest congratulations for the work they put in it.
The examination of the drawings hung around the walls of
the room occupied the time of some before adjourning to
afternoon rest, the prelude to serious exertions in the games.
On entering the schoolroom we found circular pieces
of cardboard with...”
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“...abundantly fulfilled, as the account by Mr. Learner,
the Secretary for this new session, will clearly show.
S.D.V.W.
(The following article, written by Mr. Duncan and
printed in the North China Daily News, tells the thrilling
story of a trip taken by him, Mr. Thompson (of Chekiang)
and David Thompson in the School sailing'boat.)
TWELVE-FOOTER IN SAILING EXPERIMENT
TO WEIHAIWEI FROM CHEFOO
Trip and Return Done in Four Days
CREW OF THREE IN OPEN BOAT
By J. N. Duncan
£IN interesting experiment was made this summer in coastal
C7 sailing when a friend and myself, with his fifteen-
year-old son, sailed from Chefoo to Weihaiwei and back in
a twelve-foot undecked boat, taking just over three days to
do it.
Our outfit was reduced to a fair minimum, the most
complicated apparatus being a Primus stove, a hurricane lan-
tern and a prismatic compass. The purpose of the trip was
at first to get something like a summer camping experience
without the annoyance of mosquitoes, flies and other intru-
ders...”
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“...David and me to be intervals of about five minutes.
The general humidity of the atmosphere had the effect of making
the sail “sweat” and drip its moisture with regular persistency first
on the face of one of us and then of the other, according to the
tack. At about ten o’clock it occurred to me that to take a turn
at the tiller would be little less restful, so I relieved J.T. who had by
this time brought us to the neighbourhood of the islands east of
Kungtungtao or Evans Island popularly known in Chefoo as “Light-
house Island.”
Here we put about and the new tack, with quieter weather, put
an end to the shipping of water. In the clear starlight the outlines of
islands could be easily seen and avoided. We had no fixed hours or
turns for watch, but relieved one another spontaneously as we felt
inclined.
DAWN BREEZE
It seems to be the usual thing for the wind to drop for an
hour or two about dawn, getting up again with the sun for a steady
blow which does not last long, and from seven till the...”
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“...295
That Thursday morning we got the wind to take us to within
a mile or two of the northern end of Yangmatao, the long island
strip that runs from southwest to northeast from a point some eigh-
teen miles from Chefoo. We rowed for about an hour and reached a
small island off the north end of Yangmatao, called Lien Shih or
White Rock. According to the chart there is a bench mark cut on
a large boulder here, but our search for it proved vain and we had
to content ourselves with the curious geological formations and the
numbers of birds, mainly cormorants and martins, which we disturbed
by our landing.
After a short bathe we were just in time to take advantage of
a good northerly breeze which sprang up at ten o’clock and by
which we made good progress till dusk, heading for Finger Point or
Eddy Island. By nightfall we were a few miles from this objective
and eight or ten from our destination; just over the hills the sky
glowed brightly with the glare from the lights of the warships and we...”
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“...and heading straight
across the open stretch to the dimly visible Bluff, the best part of
thirty miles away. The wind held well and as it wias a perfect day
with no signs of weather disturbance we had no hesitation in venturing
on a course that took us some seven miles from the nearest land.
We should have steered more to the south, for we realised in the
afternoon that we should not be on the safe side of the outlying islands,
so we turned southward, unfortunately before we had picked up the
Chefoo lights, so that in the middle of the night we found ourselves
uncertain of our bearing and of which of the two zones of red lights
we were really in.
After midnight the wind did little but keep us jogging gently
along and by daybreak we were still four or five miles from Evans
Island; Yangmatao was not left so far behind as we had hoped. After
fortifying ourselves with breakfast we took up the oars and rowed as
far as Evans Island, where we landed and had a bathe. By this
time we were well in...”
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“...Olive Rouse is working for the Canadian Branch of Messrs. E. S. and
A. Robinson of Bristol. She lives with Cathie and Mary Nicoll at the
“Chefoo” Flat.
Mildred Oldfield hopes to graduate from Victoria College, University
of Toronto, this year. She is President of the French Club there, and
is connected with various other things besides.
Edward Cecil Smith is living in Toronto. He edits a paper called
“The Masses.”
Olav Sorensen is in Wycliffe College, training to be a Prison Chaplain.
Bob McCrae, who was at Wycliffe, is now in his first year at Victoria
College, University of Toronto.
Sheila Tull is teaching in a High School at Richmond Hill, just outside
Toronto.
Lorna Whitelaw is finishing her Senior Matric. at North Toronto Col-
legiate.
Rose Olsen was married last year to Mr. Ronald Bonner, who is working
with the Toronto Jewish Mission.
A DOUBLE CHEFOO WEDDING I'N TORONTO I
Last Summer Harold Warren and Bruce Clinton were married to
Doris and Phyllis Brown, respectively I Brian McCarthy...”
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