A. Q Adamson, who-assist-d the original lavishly of his time, during the I two years in assisting the administration in its most recent building programme, visited the school the day before he sailed from Shanghai and gave a very interesting parallel between th construction of a building and the construction of character.
The Rev. E. Luccock addressed the entire student body more recently, thus giving the school an opportunity of getting better acquainted with its chaplain, Mr. McLachlin of the Foreign Y.M.C.A. gave the student body an inspiring address on the necessary success factors in life. Mr. Gardner Mr, A. Hanson, Ax., Buena Vist College; Graduate " Student Physics, University of Chicago, is in charge of the physics department and the athletic work for the boys.
Louise Kartes, Normal and School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1919-23;" summer quarter, University of Washington, 1924, ed in junior high school South Dakota and Hawaii and is in-charge of English and Mathematics for the 7th and 8th grades in addition to duties ex grade supervisor, Miss Manta Lyon, College, 1922; Mean. "Columbia University, 1925, with special training and experience in first. grade, the very, ost trained teacher for first grade that the school has ever 'Miss Florence Lowe, illinois and Montana State Certificates, comes with experience in Alaska and more recently in Tientsin, where she has} been principal of,' the Tientsin American School.
Mrs. Yvonne MeNeili, tu... The Royal Academy of Mu: London, 1920; ARc.t., The Royal College of Music, London, 1924, is one of the teachers of piano for advanced pupils.
Mr. A. J. Garciada Quevedo, A.n., Gonzaga University; "M.A. Santa Glara University; Special study, Georgetown, University, with five teaching experience at Santi Giara University. Bir. Quevedo at@present instructor in Latin, la which he is the best trained teacher the American School has ever had, and of manual training.
Miss Clare Spooner, Bs, St. Teresa College, 1914; Graduate work at Radcliffe College and Harvard University, 1917-18; Assistant professor of English in Constantinople Woman's Colleze the four years; is the teacher of Tewksbury addressed the ish school last Thursday on the work of the Chinese Home Missionary Society, arousing a great deal of interest in the unselfish work pursued by its representatives.
The first principal of the American School, the Rev. J. M. Espo touched upon the principal' chara: teristics of student and faculty relationships in the early days the use of the S.A.S. letters indicate Sympathy and System.
Tests The annual examination of achievement in the tool subjects is progressing. The Stanford Achievement tests which require no special Preparation on the part of the students and which are standardize to enable schools to compare students a3 well as grades with students and grades in America fave been given every year in the A. S, since 1924. The results have shown every year that S. A. S. pupils average almost one grade higher than do schools in America. However, it is necessary to bear in mind that the student body consists of children from homes of much greater opportunity for general Tenrning and that a lower standard would reflect upon the teaching of the school. These tests show that the American School is equal in its results to the better public school fu the United States.
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