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“...number of sons of clergymen who, in many different fields, have attained great eminence, more fame indeed than the children of any other group, even of teachers and lawyers. Moreover, among minister’s sons those of missionaries stand highest scholastically, according to an editorial I once saw in the New York Times.
As an educator myself, an American born in the Orient, I should like to sketch my own school, one for the sons of missionaries in North China, modelled on the great English public schools, with a difference in emphasis however; and that special difference is the point of my article. I want to show not so much by formal argument and massing of facts as by indirection and implication and example where perhaps the chief weakness in modern English and American education lies. My approach is that of a poet; I shall not do any formal tractate on education; but when one has read this description of the Chefoo Boys’ School, I hope he can fill in many details for such a treatise—for a...”
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“...victory or alibis in defeat. Stamina, courage, courtesy and the will to victory we admired and I think exemplified in action. If like most youngsters we were in part savages, nevertheless the golden rule was around and modified the rigours of youthful justice. We were most of us happy and fit.
I come now to the central qualities of the school which made it great; for a great school must have, I suppose, not only a great spirit but great teachers and a great student body. Above all, the Chefoo schools were, shall I say, spiritual. I am amazed as I look back on those days and on my teachers and fellow students. First there was a happy healthy joy in life. Life was worth while; study had a vibrant, valid, individual and collective purpose worth strenuous effort and the disciplined control of one’s minutes and hours. Masters and students alike felt, even in little matters, responsible to God; yet, feeling His near presence, they knew*—it seems to me now—that He was friend as well as commander...”
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“...Bellingham, Wash., and BETTY LOU KOPP, from Yakima, Wash. BETTY LOU is cousin to BRUCE and JOANNE CRAPUCHETTES, and BRUCE WHIPPLE a cousin of DWIGHT and JULIA. BRUCE was all-state football quarterback last year at high school, and this year, in three games, has already done a good job in the same position on the Wheaton College varsity team. This area at present is under the debilitating influence of colds and flu; at the college practically all extra activities have been cancelled, and at all the schools there is much absenteeism; many football games are having to be cancelled or postponed. Speaking further of football, GEORGE
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“...but October seems to be making up for it.”
MARIE DAVIS is home on furlough from the West Indies.
JOE DUNLAP writes: “ Have just come back from six rewarding months in England. I was engaged in research at the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and elsewhere. The family went along with me, and with JACK WELLER’S help we found a cottage in Caterham, Surrey, whence I commuted to London. The boys greatly enjoyed their experience of English schools. Everyone was extremely kind to us. Of the Chefoo folk I want to mention especially our pleasure at seeing and visiting with the JACK and ERNEST WELLER families, ARTHUR PARRY and family, and MAY HARDING. JACK helped us enormously from first to last. I felt fortunate that I could attend a January Chefoo reunion in London, having missed the one in 1946 by a few days when the U.S. Army required my presence elsewhere.
“ My brother, LOGAN DUNLAP, and his family took a month long trip to the western...”
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“...Chefoo Schools Association
President :
Rev. P. A. Bruce.
Miss L. Blackmore Mrs. L. Clinton Miss I. A. Craig Miss D. Trudinger
Vice-Presidents :
Bishop F. Houghton Mr. H. G. Judd Mr. J. B. Martin Mr. W. U. Mudditt
GENERAL COMMITTEE
(Acting also as the Committee for Great Britain Branch''.
Chairman :
Mr. H. F. Joyce,
Brook Cottage, Scrase Bridge, Haywards Heath, Sussex. General Secretary :
Mr. A. R. Parry,
8i, Burnham Way, London, W.13.
Treasurer :
Mr. D. F. Parry,
107, Southdown Avenue, London, W.7.
Editor :
Miss D. Rouse,
36, Grovelands Road, London, N.13.
News Editor :
Miss J. Bruce,
Merry Hampton, Broad Oak, Brenchley, Kent.
Secretary for Great Britain Branch :
Miss E. Preedy,
“ Norbury,” 24, Woodlands Road, Redhill, Surrey.
Miss E. M. Broomhall Mr. T. P. Welch Miss M. Hoyte
Miss J. Pearce Mr. J. H. Liveridge
NORTH AMERICA BRANCH Chairman :
Professor L. Carrington Goodrich,
640, West 238th Street, New York City, U.S.A.
Secretaries :
Miss Margaret Bunting [News and Magazine'),
126, Lawton...”
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