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“...the alumni association that used the same name.
Volume 5 Issue 1 of the authentic Chefoo Magazine is dated September 1912.
On page 1 of this internal School issue we see: "Editorial: The 'Why' and 'Wherefore.'"
There is no reference why they used the same name as the alumni magazine.
This editorial made the following statements:
"Another Magazine!! Yes, and we trust, there is no apology needed for it. In past years
there have been so many sporadic attempts to run a Magazine that we believe there is
ample proof of the desire - if not the necessity - of a magazine for the School.
"Hitherto the various Magazines have not contained very much of School News. It is
with the express object of chronicling School events - and so in a small way of writing a
contemporary history of the Chefoo Schools."
The editorial goes on to say:
"Here it may be well to say that there is not the slightest intention to publish this
Magazine in opposition to the one issued by the Chefoo Schools Association. We
believe...”
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“...Another probable reason why this issue of The Chefoo Magazine did not continue beyond
the first issue is that no doubt there was an outcry by the alumni association that their
journal title had been 'stolen' by the school students.
2. The Magnate
It is not clear how many years this magazine was published. We have just two copies, one
dated October 1926 and the other October 1927. It was produced by the Boys School.
These magazines are included courtesy of the CSA archival collection at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
3. The Chefusian
• We have issues of this magazine from 1928 until 1939. 1928 is the first, but it is not
clear that 1939 was the last. The format was similar in size and general format to the
Alumni's The Chefoo Magazine, but the focus was strictly on activities at School.
• In the Editorial of the first issue it states that it is "an official and united B.S.-G.S.
magazine" (i.e. Boys School and Girls School), it went on to state that...”
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