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“...CHEFOO, N. CHINA Chefusian FEBRUARY 1935.
CONTENTS
Editorial ................. 42
School Chronicle ... ... 43
New Buildings ............. 44
The Great Amalgamation 49
Prep. School .............. 51
G. S. “Houses” ............ 53
News ... ................... 65
General Articles .......... 60
Correspondence ............. 74
Sports .................... 76
Memorial Hall .............. 80
Valete & Salvete .......... 80
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EDITORIAL.
SURELY we are the people, the envy of our predecessors,
the admiration of our grandchildren. A grand venture
has been made; a new era in the School’s history has been com-
menced; a Renaissance has brought all manner of novelty;
and We were there.
Many are the changes: changes were what some
clamoured for, some expected and some dreaded; and changes
were what we met. The witch of Endor was astounded when
her answer came in such forceful reality. Hardly less were
the radicals astonished when after hailing this novelty in our
school-life with such care-free levity...”
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SCHOOL CHRONICLE.
HE more historic events of this term are described else'
where in this paper.
Changes of Staff have not been few. Miss Wilson is
not with us, and Chefoo without her is bereft indeed. Her
hundreds of friends among Old Chefusians will join with the
friends she has left behind in Chefoo in all good wishes to
her. Miss Isabel Taylor is teaching music in the B.S., as well
as some form subjects : Miss Twidale is teaching musical theory
in both schools. Miss Willoughby unfortunately has been pre'
vented by ilLhealth from enjoying this term with us, and has
been in hospital, and afterwards convalescent at Wei hai.
However the Schools have been fortunate in the help of Mrs.
Hutton who has been here with Mr. Hutton on literary work,
producing tfe first printed New Testament for the Black Miao
of Kweichow.
The Girls’ School, coming into line with the Boys’
School, has started Houses, as described in an article elsewhere.
Slessor and Judson Houses have chosen as colours green...”
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“...formal and public ceremony was thought proper to
acknowledge God’s goodness and to give an opportunity for
friends of the School to see the new accommodation. A whole
holiday was granted at the request of Mr. Robertson and Mr.
Seaman to whom a small presentation was made in acknow-
ledgment of their untiring activity for us. The accounts
printed below are reproduced without change from the
“Chefoo Daily News”, by kind permission of the Editor, as
we feel that they give the best and most vivid account of an
occasion which is outstanding in the history of the School.
Tho New Buildings.
Everyone in Chefoo has known for some time that
extensive building work has been going on in the C.I.M.
Compound; and many know that during this term possession
has already been taken of the new buildings. The change
over took place while further work needed to be done, but
now the hundreds of workmen have been paid off, and the
buildings are in working order. Work still remains to be...”
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“...the needs which had led to the erection of the new
Prep. School and Co-Education Block; he pointed out how
remarkable it was that these buildings should have been
completed during years of unparalleled financial difficulty;
and he voiced for us all our sense of the grace of God in
providing this new equipment for the work we love.
After all had joined in singing the Te Deum, the Rev.
H. H. Taylor, son of our founder and himself one of the first
masters of the School, gave some pictures of what Chefoo
and the School were like in the beginnings 53 years ago, when
there was hardly a foreign building between the C.I.M.
compound and Settlement Hill, and the scholars were hardly
more than a dozen. Mr. Taylor further emphasized the good-...”
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“...48
ness of God in His continual provision of the men or the
money needed for the work that has lasted so long and touched
so many lives. Dr. Donald Irwin speaking next dwelt on the
purpose of the Schools and spoke with appreciation (both as
an Old Boy and as one of the American community in this
port) of what had been attained in the past. The combination
of these two speakers together was a very happy feature of
the service. We then sang the metrical version of Psalm 23
to the tune inseparable from it in Chefoo, and while we still
stood, the Rev. A. F. Lutley led us in the Prayer of Dedication.
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Eternal Friend
of chilldren, whose blessed Son hath said, 'Suffer the
children to come unto me’; we dedicate these new build''
ings to Thee and to Thy service. We praise Thee for all
whose gifts and toil have made these new buildings possible.
Prosper, we pray Thee, with Thy blessing all who teach or
learn in this place. Open up to all who study here the
treasures...”
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“...After setting my watch with some
precision, I set forth in the slush, under a torrent of rain.
Under the friendly shelter of “Jachin and Boaz” I arriv-
ed, a trifle disconcerted: for my trousers now bespattered did
not tally with my immaculate tie and a mistake on such an
occasion must not be.
In the Common Room, where youngsters fought for the
first drink from the fountain, confusion reigned. In another
two minutes I would push the first “buzzer” ever pushed in
the amalgamated career of the two Schools: I consulted my
watch : the seconds lagged : around me still confusion roared :
again I consulted my watch, for on such an occasion as this
all “buzzers” must be pushed on time. The exact moment
came. With great deliberation I pushed that deceptive knob.
It jammed; frantically I pulled and tugged, feverishly I dug
in my finger nails; on buzzed the “buzzer”. I tugged; the
■“buzzer” buzzed; I scratched, but still the “buzzer” took no
heed. In desperation I opened my penknife and wrenched out
the...”
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and not, as frequently happens, we hear, in England, because
of the reckless driving of some young lady.
It may not have been in the plans for the terms, but
a very convenient amusement has been supplied for lunch-
breaks, in the form of house-breaking. Beside the latest erec-
tions stood an ancient house, which some tell us was the first
Chefoo School, and co-educational it that: it seems a mere
shack now and we seem to despise it in its old age by tearing
it down during breaks. Innumerable thrills have been obtain-
ed from tottering walls and snapping ropes, as the heaving
mass of willing helpers sways to and fro, and then sits down
en masse. A. G. T.
MOVING INTO THE NEW PREP. SCHOOL.
/A N October 16th., 1934, the new Prep. School came to life.
On that day it became a home, a school, a playground,
the habitation of a soul. That evening its walls resounded
with talking and laughter, scampering feet and running water;
and when at last all missing pyjamas had been found, and
lost s’ippers...”
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“...weekly staff prayer meeting was held in
the new Prep. School. The leader was one who had been
pupil, member of staff, and parent of pupil in the old school,
and none more fitting could have been chosen. Together
those who met reviewed the past, and praised God for lives
poured out in His service, and for others who in these have
seen His highest, and because of them have striven to follow it.
A. K. C.
Oddments.
Referring to the fact that Mr. Herbert Taylor was one
of the first masters at the Chefoo School some fifty years ago,
one of the Prepites explained, “Mr. Herbert Taylor was head
man at the Boys’ School for fifty years!’’
Describing an informal presentation made to Mr. Robert-
son and Mr. Seaman on the occasion of the official opening of
the new buildings, another child said. “Mr. Robertson and
Mr. Seaman got prizes! ”
Another child, “I like the new Prep. School because it
is bigger and newer and bester.”
GIRLS’ SCHOOL “HOUSES”.
For some time there have been murmurs of a desire for...”
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“...to: at the end he expressed a hope,
which we would echo, that a future occasion will renew the
pleasure given by his first visit to Chefoo.
OXFORD EXAMINATION RESULTS.
China Inland Mission Schools.
School Certificate:
Honours, with Matiric Exemption,
Monica Earle, (Dist. in English, History and Scripture)
Heather Hance (Dist. in Scripture and Mathematics), Robertson
Sinton (Dist. in History), Margaret Olesen, John Hirst.
Pass, with Matric. Exemption,
Ethel Dickson (Dist. in Scripture), Doreen McCammon
(Dist. in Scripture), James Learner (Dist. in nistory).
Pass:
Mildred Porter, (Dist. in Scripture), Florence Alderson,
Doris Briscoe, Muriel Rouse, Isabel Sinton, Doreen Tull, Paul
Mellow, Alfred Pike, David Thompson.
Junior Examination :...”
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“...asking permission to go with
some others for a bicycle ride to that place. “What on earth
is to be seen there?”
“Oh I think there is plenty to see there, sir. I have
heard it is very interesting.”
“All right then, go to your Mole, and I hope you won’t
get bored.”
With a word of thanks, I hurried off and joined those
who were eagerly waiting for the answer; so we started.
But before I tell our adventures on the Mole, let me
impart some of the knowledge I have acquired to those few
who being new to Chefoo or for any other reason, do not
know where and what the Mole is. It is an artificial neck of
rock and earth stretching out about three quarters of a mile...”
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“...Mr. King, the Settlement goalkeeper, coming in
his pinnace. His first words to us were to ask whether we
wanted to go over the ship. Delighted, we went on board,
to be greeted with a scowl from the engineer whom we had
first asked. The “Pembrokeshire” seemed a fine ship, with
all sorts of deck-games for the passengers; and we went all
over it. For a time we talked with the Chief Greaser of the
engine-room—he had this uncomplimentary title on his hat—
and he seemed, on the whole, pleased with Chefoo. But it
was now about time to get back to School for dinner, so we
thanked the Greaser and went off to our bicycles which we
found had both developed weaknesses which had to be re-
medied with a wrench borrowed from one of the small boats.
In the afternoon we returned just as a German ship
the “Bergenland” was tying up at the berth vacated by the
“Pembrokeshire”. This time we had no difficulty in getting
permission to go on board, and again we went all over the
ship: we noticed that it was kept...”
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“...other lost in a very thorny patch
in to which he was led by a strange bird, and so was torn to
pieces by the thorns), and so sailing north-east we came to
Naples. So we supposed this isle to be that of which Master
William Shakespeare has lately written in that merry stage-
play “The Tempest”. From Naples we safely reached Eng-
land, thankful for deliverance from the perils of the sea.
I. B. Y.
By ‘Who’.
NOTE. Each blank may be filled in with the surname of a
Member of Staff or Scholar of the Chefoo Schools,
either here now, on furlough, or having left since
the 1933-4 school year began. No name is repeated
twice, and two names contain two words each. A
Key to the answers is given on page. 74.
A DREAM.
I had a strange dream last K-------. I was no longer
in China but back in B--------. I walked across the M--------
and along the C---------- with a R--------, rugged W---------
S-------, such a fast W-------that I could scarcely keep pace
with him. He told me many strange things about himself...”
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“...Fifth.
/jT HEY told me, my dear brother, they told me I was ill:
They gave me loathsome medicine and a noxious bitter
pill;
I took them like a martyr, my nose held all the while.
And then I lay back on my bed, unable yet to smile.
I longed for supper to be brought, but when it came at last,
’Twas just a bowl of bread and milk—I sorrowed for my past;
For I had had a party, and had eaten till a pain
Had come into my middle—Ne’er will I do so again.
M. L. W.
An Epitaph—part of an Elegy written in a Chefoo
playground.
Some flaxen-headed lass mayhap will say,
“Oft have I heard her in the term-time cry,
‘How can I live throughout this weary day?’
And she would droop her head and sadly sigh.
E’en from the early flush of waking day,
Till high noontide her weary limbs she’d cage
In yonder desk so battered, grim and g^ay,
And pore upon a book with close-writ page.
One day she was not in her usual place;
> Another came—nor at the school was she
Nowhere around me could I see her face,
Nor in the ‘Lab.’...”
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“...rudeness, to discourtesy, impoliteneess, boorish-
ness, backchat, arguing with the referee, ungentlemanliness,
savagery, uncivilised deportment, uncouth behaviour, lack of
polish, unmannerliness, undue self-assertion, unparliamentary
diction and cheek.”
Is that clear?
Will you read what you said again? “Has ability,
which he applies mainly to Tootsie Toys” You can’t put that
on a report. But it’s the truth. That’s got nothing to do
with it. You must remember his difficult background—six
different schools in two terms. Well, shall we say “Will make
a useful prefect in four years’ time”? Don’t you think we
can get on somewhat faster?
Would you say “Very Fair”? He’s got 20%. He’s
got 80 in my subjects. I don’t believe in percents, you know;
1 think the boy is rather a dark horse. Then you can’t put
him down as “Fair”.
Will you read what you said again? “Cocksure and
inattentive with fair results.” Don’t you think we could get
on somewhat faster if we left the rest and had some lunch
now? J. S. N...”
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“...— 76 —
Letter Two. (Article enclosed).
Chefoo, nestled under the eternal hills, is robed in
the beautv of the evening, The sun has finished his
daily course and slowly sinks behind the Western Hills.
Flowing blankets of mist veil.
(Reply)
My dear Blank! My dear Blank!
Letter Three (referring to the article).
I will probably be a sentimentalist some day, or
perhaps I have already had a fit of deep melancholia.
(Reply)
You can’t have fits here. What about an article
on “A Gentleman of Leisure”?
Letter Four.
I have been pushed into piles upon piles of chemis-
try, and Botany, as well as the first principles of New
Testament Greek. So your suggestion is a little astray,
for at times I have my nose almost piessed to the
grindstone. Please my kind regards to Elisabeth, John
and the other members of the Staff.
SPORTS.
SWIMMING SPORTS.
The Second Beach Pier, like the Bund, has suffered from recent
storms, and no longer affords pleasant or even safe conditions for
swimming and diving. So lighters...”
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“...The next star in the school firmament was of course Duggie
Moore, whose finest feat was a century against H.M.S. “Cumber-
land”. His bowling was also very steady, with a match average for
the season, of only 12.9 in 109 overs.
Kiehn was a successful slow bowler whom we were sorry to
lose after the summer term. Weller was good but not so successful,
though he made a most useful hitter toward the tail end of an innings
on several occasions.
Rist was the most devastating bowler, with a pace that Chefoo
is not accustomed to, and though he was never on for more than
about three overs he nearly always got a wicket before having a
rest. Nor was he too expensive in byes, though Whitelaw stood up.
The latter was excellent at the wicket, both in keeping down the
extras and in putting down the wicket.
Reviewing the season’s matches it must be observed that in
spite of having a much rainier season than we have had for some
time, the draining system on the field worked so well that no match,
had to be...”
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FOOTBALL.
The Schooi Eleven has started the season well: J. A. Whitelaw
is captain and an old Colour: Rist also has his colours, and J. W.
Moore very quickly showed he deserved his colours. The formation
usually played has been:—
Ledgard Rist Whitelaw — Croft
Clarke Mr. Martin Yorkston
Griffin Moore
R. H. Weller
with Trickey, Slichter, Kidder, and Polverino in close competition
for the vacant place. The School has not needed Mr. Martins assist-
ance. The Chefoo Club started with a larger number of playing
members than usual, but casualties and other claims have thinned
their ranks. Mr. Parker is still the main strength of the team; Mr.
Lutley shows what a very sound player he still is. Of the 7 matches
played, the School has lost 1, drawn 2, and won 4, wtih 27 goals
in their favour and 17 against.
In the junior House matches, Paton beat Livingstone (9-2) and
lost to Carey (1-4) : Carey beat Livingstone (8-0). There are some
very promising players coming on in these junior games....”
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“...Printed and Made by
James McMullan & Co., Ltd.,
Chefoo, N. China....”
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