Miss Shu-ping Huai And Her New Post at Besant School An example of Sino-foreign ¢o-operation will be given in the present term at the Besant School for Girls which began on Monday, when Miss Shu-ping Huai will act as ce-principal with the foreign lady who founded the school, three years ago, Miss Dorothy Arnold.
The Besant School is situated at 61 Carter' Road, and had last term 815 pupils enrolled. At the time of its foundation there were -only seven pupils, one of the principal features about the institution being that instruction is given in any: of the world's religions which the student may designate that it is her wish to study. International brotherhood is stressed also.
Miss Huai, the new ce-principal, is well known in Shanghai, where she has taught in the Chih Tze University, at Kiangwan, in the Nan Fang University and in the China National University at Woosung. She was graduated from St. Mary's Hall and attended So-melville College, Oxford, where she received a bachelor's degree and honours in history. Her father was a noted Hanlin, the distinguished scholar, the late Mr. Huai Li-ching, who Served for many years as state examiner of various Chinese universities and director of Chinese students having state scholarships in Europe. Miss Huai speaks fluent English as well as French, which latter language she learned during residence in Paris. She has also attended the University of California and the Pei-hua School in Peking, and given several entertaining lectures before Sino. foreign gatherings. to England at which ti Before going various activities in which she was engaged in Shanghai, Miss Huai was English secretary for the Shanghai Women's Club and a member of the Joint Committee of Women's Organizations.
She is, moreover, a keen tennis and can be seen frequently Western district.
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