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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 * * * 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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“...to the Schools. The first is the widening of Beach Road, from the Boys’ School gate to Woodland Road. In these alterations is included an eight-foot sidewalk and a low wall on the sea side. Two stone-seats have been placed at some distance from each other on this pavement and trees are to be planted at regular intervals along the whole length of this new promenade. As the new road was 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...”
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“...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.” * # * ■-* 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 start a school magazine, sir?” "Splendid idea! Just what I’ve been thinking myself. I’ll tell you what I suggest—have a joint production to represent the two schools, Boys’ and Girls’...”
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“...never last”. “The School has managed all these years without one and the boys and girls are too young to produce anything worth having.” But Stanley Mair and Fattie (alias Fairclough) strove hard to make the first number a success and in June, 1928, the CHEFUSIAN appeared with a sombre grey cover, on which was a very artis- tic design by Miss Luton. As Mair, the editor, said of the magazine, in his first editorial, “Its purpose is to give a record of living interest of the activities of the Schools.. .and to provide an outlet for the literary talent which would otherwise remain latent.” Anyone who has attempted to publish a magazine will appreciate the two main difficulties which fa^ed the first Editorial Committee—Material and Finance. It is a fact that those responsible were never certain whether the first few numbers of the magazine would pay, but enthusiasm and some appreciation went a long way towards lightening their burdens. The second number was the first edited by girls (M. Oldfield...”
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“...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 worth while. But it can be and should be more than this, if the Schools—boys, girls and Staffs—lend their full support and sympathy. EVERY BOY AND GIRL SHOULD AS A MATTER OF DUTY DO HIS OR HER UTMOST TO TAKE A COPY OF THE CHEFUSIAN REGULARLY, for it is not fair that the Editorial Committee...”
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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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“...he intends to work for his Pre-Registration Exam, in order that he may start Medicine at Edinburgh University next year. Diana Wedderburn is going camping at Dalkeith. She is beginning to thing about her Higher Leaving Certificate Exams. Farquhar and Norman Macrae are at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. Arther Moss is busy helping Crosse and Blackwell make their jams, etc I David Landsborough is hoping to have a holiday this summer in Scot- land, part of it being spent at the Varsities and Public Schools Scottish Camp, where he will meet Howard Joyce. Fraser Anderson has just graduated M.B., C.L.B., at Aberdeen, while Ralph Peill has done the same at Edinburgh. Hartiest congrats, to both! Joy Guinness, after spending a few weeks in April in England doing a little deputation work, is now back at the Bible Institute at Nogent sur Marne in France. She helps in the Mission work, which includes visiting and taking the children’s meetings. When she arrived there last September she spent the first month...”
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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...”