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“...THE ORGAN OF THE CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION SCHOOLS A,...”
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“...A Chefoo Group at Northfield, U.S.A, Cambridge University Officers Training Corps, 1912. (See letters from Stanley Polhill). Watching a Dormitory Scrap, Northfield....”
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“...Cbefoo. Wol. VI —Fo. 3. ©ctober. A THE BADGE. JBbftovtaL SUGGESTION has been made that the various branches of the Association should each have a partial monopoly of one issue of the Magazine ; we consider this a good idea, and the present number is therefore largely devoted to American news. Our energetic and painstaking Secretary in America has made the best use of a very limited time in which to collect his contributions. Under “ Items of Interest” will be found a list of Old Boys who have joined the Colours, and every Chefooite will be proud of this list, showing, as it does, the practical outcome of the patriotic spirit which has always been part and parcel of the Schools. Here’s Three Cheers and a “ Tiger ” for our soldier lads ! With regard to the Chapel Fund we must refer our readers to a letter from Mr. Hoste, which will be found under “ Correspondence,” and patiently await further news which may be considerably delayed by present circumstances....”
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“...1 Trr—Vg-s g | Miss Shepperd, who has been in connection with the Schools since 1900, first as teacher at the Boys’ School, and then as wardrobe keeper at the Girls’ School, is leaving Chefoo and the work with which she has been associated so long, and we cannot but feel that her passing from so useful a sphere will cause a gap which will be hard to fill. The identity of the “ Chiel,” having unfortunately leaked out, he has bashfully declined to appear in print again, and all our readers will miss the breezy “ News of the Term ” which had become such a feature of our Magazine ; however, another bashful, but gallant, individual in the shape of “ Pepys Junior ” has taken the field, and we hope will soon win a similar esteem. Have YOU got your badge ? PERSONALS. T HESE personals are items of interest about the various Chefooites, which the Secretary has been able to glean, through personal contact, personal correspondence, or through the kindness of others. The small number of Chefooites in...”
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“...some relatives near New Haven. Ned Chalfant is located in New York, but spends most of his time “ on the road,” travelling as an advertising manager for a magazine, well-known to business men, called “ System.” Scott Corbett is also in New York City, arduously toiling away to obtain such a grade in the Standard Oil Business School as to be engaged, and finally sent out to China as a representative. I had the opportunity of visiting him for the first time;—on the 11th of August— since leaving Chefoo. He is a strapping, big fellow just through College, and grappling to make a place in the world. We had a very pleasant lunch-hour chat. He gave me to understand that to obtain a position as foreign representative for the Standard Oil is not such an easy matter as it is cracked up to be. The Cornwells are scattered all over, as usual. Laura, and those younger, are on the farm with their grandmother. They have just commenced their fall term of school. John has resumed his studies at Washington...”
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“...to the name of Chefooites. Harold has been prominent in Athletics, and I heard that the Chefoo boys were marvels on the Scccer field. Henry Fenn, Hank as he is called, is holding his own at Hamilton College. He is a Student Volunteer. Most of his activities run along literary lines, as his Chefoo friends can undoubtedly recall. At College he is writing for the monthly magazine. He won second prize in Sophomore Oratorical contest, and is also endeavouring to make the College Debating Team. Carrington Goodrich, I understand, is behaving himself unusually well at William’s College. He is another member of the Student Volunteers. His pastime is also seeking for literary honours, of which he is undoubtedly going to hold several before graduating. This past summer he has been canvassing the New England Field in the interests of his own purse, selling Chefoo hand-made silk and lace. The readers of the “ Chefoo ” know as much as 1 do about Tony Hunnex. He has not written me a good letter yet, and...”
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“...College from third year High School, and only at the age of sixteen. It is to be hoped that his career may not be influenced by his early entrance into College life. Ted tells me that Clarke has been studying for some time preparatory to taking the Entrance Examinations for Princeton. The reason the names of so few girls have been mentioned is because I am bashful—no, but simply that there are only a few Chefoo girls in America that I have heard from, and their names come at the end of the list. The next one is Lizzette Miller, a youthful lady, the product of Northfield Seminary, with a Chefoo foundation. She has still another year before entering College. She is actively engaged in literary lines at Northfield, and 1 learn is very much admired, in several ways, too, from what little I saw of her. (Now you other Northfield girls do not worry.) She is Treasurer of the Tau Pi Literary Society, and President of the Seminary Student Volunteer Band. I must not forget to say that her sister Anna...”
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“...being : Regular Football as played by American colleges, Baseball, Track Basket-Ball. Soccer is steadily on the increase, it just being inaugurated here; Gymnasium Teams, Cross-country Teams, Dramatic Club, Glee and Mandoline Clubs, and the Literary and Debating Societies. In most colleges the Y.M.C.A. is playing an active part with memberships proportionate to the size of the institutions. At Lafayette, the Y.M.C.A. has been a rather dead thing until last year; through a great awakening, the Association has taken a new start and is really counting something. It aims at the control of the moral atmosphere I of the college, and by claiming the men prominent in the activities of the college it is making vast strides towards its goal. After four years of such life with all its excitement, experiences and friendships, it is pretty hard for some graduates to entirely forsake the old halls, and every once in a while one will come across an old “ Grad.” observing the new life of the college with pleasant...”
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“...or she will not fail to drop in on us, and we promise to give all a royal good time, as an advertisement to all other Chefooites ! Dorothy Sibley AN AMERICAN REUNION. Cottages, East Northfield, USA., Mass. Dear Fr iends, Brothers, and Sisters, N the evening of July 24th a merry group of girls and boys walked over to the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Frost (Director of the C.I. Mission in America). As we were nearing their home, we sang “ Chefoo’s burning,” one of those favourite rounds of Chefoo. We were greeted heartily by the host and hostess, and met some of their children and other guests. After we had been introduced ________all around we settle down to play “Up Jinks,” our host remarking that the quarter (U.S. 25-cent piece), with which we played, belonged to the hostess, and that she would be glad to have it returned to her after the game. Our side won the game with a very high score. ■«* We now returned to the sitting-room, where our hostess gave us a piano solo, after which...”
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“...trying to step into the breach, I do so with much diffidence, and on the distinct understanding that the readers of the Magazine will deal gently with me, and that no parent or friend will rob me of my anonymity which is really of no value to anyone but myself. May 5th.—Term begun.—On account of the epidemics, which were still the guests of the Schools, a united opening service was out of the question. June 2nd.—An interesting cricket match, “ Chefoo ” v. H.M.S. “ Alacrity.”—For the former, Stooke and Wilson (Old Boys), Malcolm (Master), and Hollander, Clarke, T. McCarthy and Hoste played —seven out of the XI.—not bad for the School, eh ? Chefoo did not cover herself with glory, but that’s another matter, and a somewhat painful one, so I gather. The following was overheard on the field from one naval officer to another : “ Those boys play a clean, keen game.” How’s that for an unsolicited testimonial ? 72...”
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“...Miss Katie Easton announced. Up comes Frank from Shanghai with a more or less plausible story of ill-health, overwork, engagements cancelled, etc., etc. He was a healthy looking invalid to be sure, and as for engagements cancelled there was one which was planned, fulfilled, and announced. Old Boys coming to Chefoo in search of “ health ” are in future to be objects of suspicion. We are simple folk here, but we shall not be taken in twice in the same way. * * * * July \3th-15th.—Cricket match, “Past” v. “Present.”—I think I saw Short Slip, or was it Cover Point (?) writing this up, so shall content myself with suggesting that next year some of the Old ’Uns make a point of being in Chefoo for this match. All of us who are in the habit of seeing the Shanghai papers have noticed with pleasure and pride the splendid scores made by Allen Hayward this season. He plays in the best cricket—and it is good stuff, let me tell you—and it was quite expected that he would have been chosen to go to Hong...”
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“...solemn and inspiring sight—the impelling desire to witness to the grace of the Lord Jesus, the ordeal of it, the crowds of natives and foreigners, the soft singing of the hymn, “ 0 Jesus! I have promised To serve Thee to the end/’ all go to make a picture peculiar to Chefoo. It is such evidences of God’s favour which make the work in the Schools so well worth doing. * * * * August 4th. News received of war between Great Britain and Germany. Rumour flew apace, and before long the boys were busy purveying blood-thirsty news of battles, by the side of which Water oo and Sedan would be mere affairs of outposts. The Lower School Boys were solemnly told that the Dutch were in Holland, and the Swiss navy was shortly taking the field, all of which was most certainly believed amongst them, for it takes some time before Juniors tumble to it that the Upper School beys are “kidding” them. So it was, and is, and ever shall be. * * * * August 18th.—Long swim from Bluff to Settlement. Clarke, Hoste and T...”
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“...Shepperd’s returning to China, and to the work she has so carefully and efficiently done here for so many years. She feels that for private reasons she must remain in the Old Country. There is this about it, that the Schools have another staunch friend in England now. * * * * Howard Stephens is here, and has joined the firm of Cornabe, Eckford & Co., taking the place of Wallace Squire who is leaving very shortly. S}S }jC s}s tfc The following boys (and, as the poet said : “ we are seven ”) are passing out this term, although the movements of some of them have been much interfered with by the war in Europe, which makes the Siberian Route impossible, and the Suez Route undesirable at the present time. But if it is found that Britannia still rules the waves the boys will launch out from Chefoo without delay :—■ Percy Hollander .. Francis Dickie Terence McCarthy John Green Alfred Horne Duncan Hogg Trueman McCrea .. * * to India for a time, to Scotland for further study, to Canada later. to Glasgow for...”
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“...Neptune third, thus concluding a really exciting race. In this connection I want to mention that the Hector is a presenta-tion this year to the School by an Old Boy—Jim Watts, he having sent the necessary funds for this particular object. It is only fair to mention that in the canoe races to be, the following paddlers were to have competed : Ford, Mills, Hogg and Murray—all might-have-beens. Foundation Day proper was celebrated on the 16th of June, and I wonder how many “ Past Scholars ” of the Schools were imagining to themselves the various events, and entering into them in spirit on the 15th ! The weather conditions of that day fully compensated for the unfavourable conditions of the previous day; never have I known it to be better. As usual, the cricket match between the “ Masters and Friends ” and the “ Boys ” was the first event, and commenced about 8.30 a.m. The match produced exhibitions of batting but no definite result, the “ Boys ” scoring eighty-two for three wickets, and the “...”
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“...Mr. Taylor based his address on the words of David : “ That thou mayest add thereto” (1 Chr. xxii. 14), and called the attention of the listeners to the record that David had prepared abundantly for the Temple, both in material and in workers. He said this did not mean that there was nothing for Solomon to do, but that he was to make use of the abundance of the past for his present work, and do his share in adding to it. To-day we remember all the great things God has done in the past for the Schools, but we are to remember that God is greater than His past, and prepared to do more in the future than ever before. He has a plan not only for the world but for us, and we may add to all the past of God’s work and blessing by filling our place in that plan. We exist to extend. Mr. Taylor also spoke on Prayer (Matt. vi. 6). Prayer tends to make our work both practical and permanent. Men of prayer, are not visionaries, as is often supposed, but the men who accomplish most. They are the men who see...”
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“...margin of one point. As often as items “ Old Boys u. Present Boys ” are inaugurated, so often do they become annual events in Chefoo, and the final tennis match was between the Old Boys, represented, as was the case last year, by W. Squire and C. Wilson, and the Present Boys, represented by Hollander and Hoste. The game was up to fifty points, and great was the excitement when the score reached forty-five all. There was no keeping the boys in at that juncture, and they “ collared ” the remaining five points, thus winning gloriously.. I hear that our (O.B.) representatives are to be put on to learning Tiddley Winks, in the hope that they will be more successful should such a competition come into vogue ! ! The evening’s concert was carried through successfully in the north-east corner of the quadrangle. Mr. Murray was responsible for the result—I mean he is to be congratulated upon the success of it all, though he himself was absent, being at the time at Dalny seeing Mrs. Murray and Miss Shepperd...”
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“...chcpcc AN AYLESBURY REUNION ON AUGUST 3rd, 1914. WAS in London, unexpectedly, the week-end during which everyone was wondering whether Britain was going to war or not. I was told that Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were kindly awaiting old Chefooites to a reunion at Aylesbury, on Monday, and that they had extended their invitation to those whose only intimation was the “ Chefoo Magazine,” I had been to more than one Scotch Reunion, but never an English one, so I was very glad to go. I missed the train, but that was because the ticket office was closed, having chosen an August Bank Holiday to do so. However, I got there, which was the main point. The first thing I saw when I got there was a large photo of Olive Grainger’s (I mean Mrs. Callis’) wedding group, which had been taken a couple of months previously at the Mission House in Newington Green, but it only partially prepared me for the sight of her frisking about for the first time, much to our consternation, without her keeper. We were slightly...”
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“...from Wellingborough, I think she told me, but I forget in which direction. Mr. and Mrs. Lea were there, and as they were two of the latest from “ the field,” we heard a good deal of the latest Chefoo news. I have not yet forgotten a story about Mrs. Lea’s small daughter, a soldier, and a bonnet 1 Margaret Cameron was down from London, wearing one of Miss Soltau’s bonnets as a preparation for a future halo, and Dora Clarke, who is a nurse in the London Hospital. She saw the first batch of three hundred wounded men brought in from the Front, and will probably, alas 1 see a good many more. Laura Clarke was also there. She is teaching in Ivybridge, South Devon, about twenty minutes’ walk from Dartmoor. Among the men were Mr. Lea, George Rendall, Horace Hunt, John Hayes, and Douglas Polhill. The latter has been working in one of the poorest parts of London. John Hayes has left Oxford, where he has been studying for the last few years as a Rhodes scholar, and was going to Edinburgh to work in...”
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“...in the second game, when the reds were on the point of winning, the blues treacherously threw down their mallets and said they had to go and catch a train ! I still burn to avenge the day. We partook of some tea, more conversation and Chefuscian reminiscences. Before we left we tendered our heartiest thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Chiltcn and Mr. and Mrs. Hunt for their kind generosity and the ripping time we had had. As at Chefoo, we used to wish Christmas came every month, so I wished we could have a Chefoo Reunion every month. Then we went and caught our trains. LIST OF CHEFOOITES PRESENT: Margaret Cameron. Dora Clarke. Laura Clarke. Olive Callis. Mr. Hunt. Mrs. Hunt. John Hayes. Mr. Lea. Mrs. Lea. Douglas Polhill. George Rendall. JOHN OLDBOY. T had been a peculiarly successful trip up the tortuous Peiho. The large German steamer had brought about the undoing (literal) of several small native craft, two sampans had been swamped, whilst a third laden with hay and a baby atop had been forced...”
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“...TprrcQ iR-a''''? “ I see, and a bit rough on you,” he chortled. “ Not at all,” I made quick to reply.” I was on Escort duty, in which case the rougher the better ; it may sound brutal, but you know ‘ Sick children play no pranks.’ There are times when even a rough sea has its blessings, so to speak, and now what of yourself ? ” “ Oh, fair,” he made answer ; “ the work’s not bad, the Chinese are a nuisance, though I am getting them into my ways, but I wish I were back at dear old Chefoo. Ah ! if only I had—” “ Please, don’t ! ” I interrupted, “ I know—they all say it—but you wouldn’t have.” He gave a wan smile and sighed heavily, he seemed plunged in melancholy ; I had interrupted the unloading of a heavy cargo, and was doomed to pay the penalty. He quickly determined on a course of self-justification and continued : “ Of course there is precious little one ever learnt that really comes in useful. Look how I slaved at that Latin ; it hasn’t brought me in any dollars yet, and 1 don’t see...”