Plans for New Building on the Liddell Estate 'The purchase of the Liddell estate at 501 Avenue Haig for the site of the Cathedral School for Girls give to the girls a school in ideal' contrast with their present. crowded quarters on Yates Road. The grounds ave spacious, 25 mow, ard bordered with el que trees. Wit be a new building erected immedi tay; there will be ample room for tennis coots and a garden. The old house which will be used for classrooms for the senior girls will, when repairs have been made and the rooms altered, be picturesque with its wide and spacious verandahs both on the ground floor and the first. There is a large room which was once ball room which can be used for an assembly hall. Since many alterations are to be made it is impossible to state at present how many class rooms there will be but there is ample room for about fifteen. Near the house there is a small observatory the plans for which are unknown at present but it could be used for.a laboratory. Messrs. Spence, Robinson Partners have been chosen for the architects for the new building. which will be used for the Junior girls. Work on the place will be started immediately and the school will be moved to its new quarters, in November, at which time it is hoped that the new building will be completed.
There are 250 girls enrolled in the Cathedral School this term and the building which has been used for the past five yours is full to overflowing. -The school was found. ced by the Cathedral seventeen years ago and was first located on Avenue Roud, moving to Yates Road after the war, It docs not have an endowment as does the Henry Lester Cathedral School for Boys but. is maintained almost entirely by Brith merchants, the Cathedral, and the tuition fees of the students, Tue Ministry of Education has Shanghai s newspaper instructed the Mayor of Greater
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"We have perused the manifesto of the Educational Bureau of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai and the circular telegrams of th various organizations advocating the restoration of China's educational Fights in the special district of Shanghai. The documents express. wise opinions, which come from the hearts of zealous persons whom we highly admire.
During this period of political training, such @ proposal is extreme: ly important and its materialization [should not be delayed, Although our schools are not located in the Settle ment, we aunnot keep silent at the loss of our educational rights and desire to express our views since we fare engaged in educational work in this Municipality.
The Settlement came into existe fence through unequal treaties, ig by no means ceded territory, It is simply a place set aside for for. eigners to Tive in for a specified period, and the ownership rights are hot completely lost to Onina, There no. stipulation in any of these unequal treaties that foreigners are to have the rights to undertake educational administration on behalf of the Chinese people. This is the first reason why educational vights in the Settlement must be restored ta, China, "Chinese the Settlement are not cording to the Three Principles of the People. Most of them are given an im= perialistic education, by which means foreigners axe endeavouring to un-Jdermine the thoughts of our younger generation," This ix the second reason why educational rights in the Settlement must be restored to China, "Prior to olfacting the abolition the unequal treaties and the retrocession of Settlements and con. jeeasions, the Shanghai Educational Bureau is energetically conducting, Ja_movement for the restoration of China's educational rights in the [Settlement with a view to prom ing education in the special dist by. establishing more city schoo This is in accordance with the plans to save Chinese residents in the Settlement from being misled by the aggressive policy of the imperialists there and to. readjust and unify Jedicational administration. The re-Istoration of China's educational rights in the Settlement is the first step towards the abolition of unequal treaties and the restoration of all feoncessions, This constitutes the third reason, 1 the beginning of each term the four city schools in the International Settlement are always besieged by many applicants, a large number of vihom have to be rejected. This shows that intelligent Chinese idants in, the Settlement are not ing to have their chiklren receive an education that is fit only for slaves of foreigners, and it their earnest desire that the Chinese educational authorities effect the restoration of China's educational rights quickly. This is the fourth periods and these were but phases we always worked through.
He had a sincere belief in his country and he had always tried to work for her, and he had an equally sincere belief in Shanghai and her future. They, were going through difficult and dangerous times, but Shanghai had been through the same in the past and had survived, as he knew she would survive triumphant ly even in these days of doubt and despondency. He was leaving Shanghai not because he disbelieved in her, or on the principle of rats deserting a sinking ship, for he believed in her whole-heartedly. He only wanted to get Home and see something of his native country while ginger was-still hot in the mouth. Just ashe had tried to work for {Shanghai in the past, he would go on trying to serve her interests at Home. He had no idea of going on \the shelf and doing nothing. He proposed to go on working and he ould go to it taking with him any warm and pleasant memories of Shanghai, not least among which would be the memory of the honour paid him ty St. Andrew's Society that day. reason.
"The number of well-administered Chinese private schools in the Settlement is not small, but there is also a number of schools which have been established for money-making. purposes. Some schools occupy two for three houses as' small as pigeon nests and their administration is, extremely inefficient, Moreover, these so-called schools are actually. used by reactionaries us meeting pliices where lawlessness is planned jand they rely upon the Settlement authorities for protection. We. re-[crat that our educational authorities Jeannot interfere. This is the fifth "From the above it can be seen we do not strive to effect tthe restoration of China's education-rights in the Interns tional Settloment within a short period education in Shanghai will be adversely affect. ed, which will prove a great blot fon the history of Chinese education.
'"We are glad that you have been lelected Chinese Councillors to the Shanghai Municipal Council because of your integrity and reputation. We hope you will, in an, undaunted spirit, assist the Bureau of Education to effect the restoration, to China of her educational rights om)
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