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“... have not come our way, neither unfortunately have a large number of their dollars.
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The Best Proverb competition, details of which were announced in our last issue, is now closed, and no more entries can be received. As none have yet been received this news will we trust be taken calmly.
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Ab we go to press a welcome cover from Australia arrives, with all the latest news. Would that we all were aB energetic as our secretary ‘down under’.
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The usual essay competition for the Schools has unavoidably had to be postponed till the spring. We much regret the necessity for this, but trust that our youthful journalists will be none the less enthusiastic in spite of the delay....”
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“...attempts to oompose such an account have resulted in the same sort of a thing as our old equations used to end up sometimes, when after two pages of careful figuring we came to the conclusion that X equalled 0. This as a matter of fact is probably the most accurate description one could give.
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The C S. A. Tennis competition was duly played to a conclusion on Foundation Day. The successful competitors were J. F. Gardiner and Ruth Dilley, who duly received the tennis racquets presented by the Association. We have received charming letters of thanks from the recipients.
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The Shanghai summer reunion was duly held early in August, and took the form as usual of a swimming party. The prolonged heat of the Summer was then at its worst, and proved an incentive to duck in the cooling waters of the pool. Many Chefooites took advantage of the occasion, but many were out of town.
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“...Settlement match. The Settlement beat the School.
May 15th-31st.—Boys School Tennis tournaments were played off to see who would get in the six for Foundation Day. The six settled were Pote-Hunt, Palmer, Weatherhead, Best, Moore and Gardiner.
May 20th.—A notice giving names of captain and vice of boating was pinned on the notice-board. They were respectively Moore & Best.
May 21st.—In the afternoon we had the Empire Day celebrations. There weTe various races. There were races for the different schools in Chefoo. The most interesting races were between the school and the Settlement For these races there were points. The Settlement beat the School by 36 to 27 points. The Settlement Competitors were A. P. Dowglass, R. A. Eckford, H. B. Hobart-Hampden, A. R. Hogg, W. Y. Jones, W. Malcolm, J. Me Mullan, J. V. Porter, R. Trendel. Those who ran for the School were L. Andrew, S. Best, E. Bevis, W. Dorval, C. Fairclough, F. Gardiner, C. Luttrell, P. Moore, J. Pote-Hunt, C. Stark. At four o’clock tea, was...”
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“...together, and naturally attend any of the local amusements. We have a little claBs of Sunday school scholars on Sunday mornings, as a minister visits only once a month, from 56 miles away.
We have learnt to ride, drive, fish, shoot, clean ducks and pigeons, boil the billy, and a lot of quite “bush accomplishments,” since we've been here. It is a lovely free, healthy life—and Australia is all like that. Won’t you try it?
Yours sincerely,
A. I. Burgess. 1916.
Melbourne Doings.
There has been a boom in Chefoo affairs in this centre lately, and following the example of this age we proceed to tell the world.
To begin with, Geraldine Lack paid a short visit to Melbourne as a delegate to the Mott Missionary Conference. She gave us no hint of her intentions and took us all by surprise—of course a pleasant one. A hurried reunion was arranged at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Waters for Apr. 14. When Helen Todd, Will Allen, Percy Westwood, Tim McCarthy, Winnie and Betty Platt rolled up to meet Geraldine.
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“...same.
After supper the names of Chefooites in Auetralasia were read, followed by prayer and the singing of our Chefoo psalm.
Frank Stuckey having missed the last two or three reunions, decided to take the law into his own hands and invited all Chefooites to a tennis party at the home of his grandfather on May 1. But a day or so before the date fixed for the tennis he had to depart up country, having received a school appointment not expected till later. Then rain in the night spoilt the court for the time being, but those of us who gathered, namely Helen Todd, Beth and John Herbert, Kilty Waters, and Will Allen had a pleasant afternoon playing ping pong, clock golf, etc., and of course talking Chefoo. Most of us had not met Mrs. Stuckey before, but we were soon at home, and very grateful to her for her kindness in having us.
The same day Helen Todd invited us to yet another Chefoo gathering, and on May 15th. Beth and John Herbert, Allison and Douglas Pike, Kitty Waters, Winnie and Christie...”
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“...for its own items and publications, and would I act up to it accordingly. This point how ever I might have good naturedly waived, if it were not
for the gentle hint about the suitability of an article from N. Z., which made me think that such a communication night be classified as “Trials from a Secretary.”
With such an undertaking before me the great question is the subject matter of the article. Over here, on account of the paucity of our numbers, we cannot give accounts of stirring times at Chefoo reunions, because our reunions consist of two families gathering round the tea table. Nor do I feel capab’e of writing a treatise, such as was manifest in that masterful and elegant production on ‘Co-operation’ so I shall have to confine myself to some experiences that have marked my course in N. Z.
On entering an Insurance Company, I was soon initiated into all the mysteries and honors of houses burning, motor-cars crashing, Companies failing etc. so that I have wondered if a policy of insurance...”
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“...of the law.
One night a young worker aFked me to give a word of testimony, or be ready to do so at some future occasion. I was rather taken back, but promised him that I would think the matter over, feeling that I would never be able to pluck up courage thus to publicly speak a word for my Lord and Master. While going home, I thought of all the good times I had had at Chefoo, and of all the Christian instruction received. How, from childhood I was brought up in the knowledge of the Scriptures and I realized that probably here was no other school in all the world where the Word of God was so faithfully taught as at Chefoo. 0 that we who leave those shores, going out as we do with such a responsibility behind us, might not be ashamed to tell others of the Saviour we have found and learnt to love.
Gradually I found out that it was not only the opposition of the riotous that one would encounter, but that many professional skeptics used to gather round who endeavoured to persuade me that the...”
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Perhaps I shall be deemed fanatical by some for writing in such a strain to the mag. but this is only an expression of my experience, since I have left Chefoo and gone out into the world, as a tender shoot ’mid the storms that sweep around. And as the article by ‘Sir Galahad’ on ‘Foundation Day’ lies before me, I realize afresh that temptations have met me of which one never dreamed in the old sheltered school. How sad indeed that many Chefooites have fallen from the simple faith of their Childhood. O that it might truly be said of us. That the old Boys and Girls of the Chefoo Schools are known not only for their successful careers in life, and their loyalty to their Alma Mater, but also for their loyal testimony to their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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“...C. I. M. Chefoo,
July 30th.
Dear “Old Girls’’ in Chefoo,
Thank you all ever so much for the beautiful gold watch presented by you this year. I suppose that most of you were in the Hall when it was given away and I felt it a great honour. I shall value the watch the more as I have lived among you so many years and because many of you are my own teachers to whom I owe a debt which can never be paid.
Yours very sincerely
Winnie Embery.
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“...CHINA COMMITTEE,
Secretary.
W. H'. Taylor, Esq. y 45 Macgregor Road.
£•
Treasurer.
Miss Gladys Evans,
c/o Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.
Shanghai.
Mrs. W. Weston,
Mrs. R. C. Wells,
E. F. Hardman, Esq.
N. E. Lack, Esq.,
Chefoo Secretary.
R. L. Faers, Esq.
c/o C. I. M. Chefoo.
AUSTRALIAN BRANCH.
Secretary.
Miss K. Waters....”
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