Shanghai Municipal Counei's Publ School for Chinese was held on Jar 12, in the presence of a stood nui ber of visitors, Mr. A. D. Bell, member of the [Council's Board of Education, and 'Mrs, Bell were present, others who sat with the Headmaster, Mr. G. S. Foster-Kemp, on the dais being Messrs. King "Chien-kun, L. GE. Healey (Superintendent, of Edueation), A. T. Holland, T. S. Baillie and G. F. C. Newsam' (Headmasters respectively of the Ellis Kadoorie Public School, Polytechnic School Jand Anglo-Chinese School), Messrs. Vu Ya-ching, Wang Lal-cha, J. Moffat, F. Burrington, E, H. Anstice Jand Mrs. M. C. Brown of the school The proceedings included speeches of welcome in English and Chinese by, pupils, one in English entitled "Shakespeare and the Stage" being icularly well rendered. A ing speech in Mandarin was by Mr. King Chien-kun, a guished former pupil and now tant Managing Director of the ina United Assurance Society and Managing Director of the Kwang Hua Petroleum Company.
The Polytechnic With Mr. K. H. Ling, the resign-Jed Vice- Minister of Finance in the Nanking Government and Member fof the Shanghai Municipal Board Education, present as one of the principal speakers for the occasion, the Polytechnic School for Chinese on, Pakhoi Road held its. annual bution on Jan. 14 under Sheppard, Board, headmaster.
In opening his address to the! students Mr. Ling mentioned that he had been a pupil at this very school 40° years previously, Dr. Fryer the heed of the Institute, as it was known, at. that Congratulating the students jon the scholastic showing made, the speaker stressed the importance of science in every walk of life and expressed his pleasure that its study was given such an import part inthe school curriculum, In closing he urged the students to become proficient in the: r native tongue, as well az English, and to remember that, if one wanted to'
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