Training Young Chinese Women to Retain Their Heritage What Young Miss China, mith demure dimple and dainty ways, {a able to accomplish, is proof that the young Chinese woman is in no hurry io forfeit her femininity simply because she wishes to share with other women of the world in their era of expan asmple of tio nam atta ber found es in toaniry., Although China, hes her radical isl students who affect Amazonian qualities, one does not have to seek far to find that most of the young Chinese women who are accomplishing a definite work in China's transition period are quite content to play an undiminished feminine role. Some observers find similarities between the Chinese and French woman, it that no need for apology is felt' either because she wishes to be young and charming even though concerned with les affaires. Actually, it would seem that young Chinese women of the present day have reason to know that their ficiency will not be questioned rely because they exert the grace "and delicacy that is theirs by right of being women, A fascinating example of this tendency, and one to bear out the foregoing generalities, is to be sean in the work of Miss Dorothy Wong, who recently launched a novel scholastic programme at Wong Academy for Girls, situated at Hart Rond, Miss Wong is a returned student, After gaining considerable distinction for her scholarliness in universities in Amerien, she returned to China last year and set about with quiet purpose to introduce her original ideas in a practical way. In September, 1927, she opened her: schoo! and, with the help of her mother, Mrs.. T, Wong, and her sister, Miss Grace Wong, the latter being a graduate of the Now, England Conservatory 'Music and an accomplished musician, fas well as instructor In music, 3 {instituted a curriculum which' aims developing students' personalilon, and at preserving and eultiva'- nity, <a the best elements, of their
'A Former MeTyelre Girl, In 1921, Miss Wong, who was a former student at the MeTyeire 1, School for Girls here, left China to study in America. She-had passed the Tsing Hwa examinations and received a scholarship to a college of her choosing. She chose the Women's College of Delaware, and set to work immediately to prepare herself for future educational work {in her own country. Her first sum-mor, likewise, was devoted to study, at the Harvard Summer School, Then, the following year she entered the University of Chicago, where she continued to study. modern "educational methods, and where she received a degree of Bachelor of Aris, This was followed degree, taken at, Columbia Untverliy tie hast year, Before continuing her work towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Miss Wong decided to return to China and put into practice the ideas about education Chinese girls which she had formulated and which were to make the topic for her Doctor's thesis. With this in mind, therefore, she opened the Wong's Academy for Girls and turned her attention to the personal management of young Chinese girls.
Students from 12 to 18 years are attendance. Most of them are day pupils, but a few boarders are received. The whole scheme, however, is that there should never be 80 many pupils as to make personal attentiw- impossible on the part of the Indies in charge.
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