Shanghai Public School Boy's Success: £400 for Three Years On Saturday the result was made known of the competition for the Peace Memorial Scholarship, one of the largest scholarships if not the largest in the world. This scholarship, which was instituted by an anonymous donor to mark the conclusion of the Great War, carries with it £400 per annum and is tenable for three years. There are two of them, falling vacant at the end of every three years, and thus providing the magnificent sum of £800 a year for the education of two boys at a, Home: university. The award of the scholarship is based on the results vt the Hongkong University examinations, and on Saturday the trustees of the fund, who are the Chairman and Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council, acting on the recommendation of the Hongkong University Senate, announced that it had been gained by J. ©. K. Marshall, who had obtained first-class honours and 78 per cent. of the total marks.
The winner, who is 16 years of age, is a son of the late Mr. William W. Marshall, M.A, BEL, F.R.S.L., of the Inner Temple, who died 15 years ago. Since then this year's winner of the scholarship has lived with his mother. He was formerly at school at Chefoo and for the past 10 months he has been a pupil at the Shanghai Public School for Boys. It is his intention later in the year to proceed to Oxford, where his father was educated, and there carry on his studies under the provision of the scholarship. The holder off the other scholarship is Mr. Green, also formerly of the Public School for Boys, who is now studying at Manchester University. He won'the scholarship last year, when only one of the two'was taken up, leaving the other to be competed for this year.
In congratulating the successftil candidate for the scholarship, it is permissible to emphasize the splendid nature of the act which has brought into being s0 handsome a fund. The conditions provide that the scholarships shall be competed for by boys of British parentage throughout China, and the amount of the scholarship makes a full university education in England possible for the winner. Undoubtedly it is one of the greatest of the peace memorials that have come into existence, and the British community throughout China is under a deep debt of gratitude to the anonymous donor of the money for opening such a magnificent op-° portunity to British boys.
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