The school, in common with British schools generally, stood for the building up, from a well-laid founda. acter, discipline, and moral tone as well as the attainment lof proficiency in the various. sub-[jects studied. They must endeavour, 30 far as they were able, to pro:
ide the student with an outfit for life. Diseiptine was an_essentinl feature of that outfit. Employers did not want undisciplined young men, but well-trained youths posses-ing' smartness, force of character, ability to think clearly, exactness in method, and, above all, that prime requisite of personal integrity. In the development of this quality well-balanced religious teaching wax essential.
In the newspapers they were told that the schools and colleges of China were turning out by thou-nds students of a very undesirable type. It was possible that the fault was not so much with the teaching given but rather in the neglect of the law of supply and demand, After a recitation "The Wasp! and the Bee" given in excellent English by three of the pupils, Dean Symons addressed the school in Chinese on the purpose of education as the development of the whole man—body, mind and spirit. Three diminutive Chinese boys then recited a clever piece of nonsense relating to the surprising achievements of three little students of the Anglo-Chinese School.
Sir Skinner Turner congratulat-fed the school upon its history, Mr. Newsam upon his report, and the prize-winners upon the promise they displayed, and further exhorted those who were not to receive prizes not to be discouraged but to go on working and the rewards would come sooner or later. Sir Skinner took advantage of this opportunity endorse the hope expressed the Chairman's speech of two ago, namely, that the Anglo-Chit School should share in the apportion ment of the Boxer Indemnity. He thought of education as a training which brought out the powers and character latent within us, not the stuffing of book-leaning into us, Value of Training "It is this training," he said, "that will enable us when we get further on in life and into the world put true values upon things and s0 to play our part in life properly.
Here in the Anglo-Chinese School you are getting the best of two methods of education and the results will be far-reaching. What do you want this education for? Primarily for yourself, to go out into the world and do your duty in that sphere of life to which it has pleased God to call you. But your desire ix far wider than that, because all of us move in a circle among our neighbours and cannot remain alone. We must be an example and help to those around as the American poet has said, Teaving foot-prints on the sands of time asa guide to others. There is still "another reason why your want education and this training is especially "necessary to-day in China, because you are. going to play your part in the history of China, Your country needs trained men to help her in all departments, Your training here makes fitness both in your minds and bodies, work and' play, that fitness which' will enable you to help in that political life which some of you will be called upon to share."
'A selection from "A Tale of Two Cities" was then given by student with unusual feeling and understanding. Lady Turner presented the prizes and was in turn presented with w bouquet of pink carnations, proffered by the youngest member vf the school, The exfercises terminated with the singing of the National Anthem in Chinese and the Benediction pronounced by Dean Symons,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.