What we really alm at turning out, and what 1 like to think we do (urn out, Is a team of 200 boys that boy for' boy can hold its own in stamina and general fitness against any other school in Shanghai or elsewhere. And that fs why I am proud of the leading role that we always play In the inter= school athletic sports. In those sports we put Into the Mold not dye or ten but fifty or sixty boys and we ure always well to the fore.
Mr, Sheppard said that he way sure they would all wish him to con gratulate Mr. Crow on being able once more to report a successful year. It was now over 60 years since the school had been established, and with Mr, Crow og headmaster, the highest traditions of the school had been well maintained during the year. Although hho personally was not able to go back to the foundation of the school, he mad known it 12 years afler its {out lation, ~s he had come to Shanghai 38 Years ago, "He had known the school since "first arriving in' Shanghai, watched lis progress, and realized that it was making a' real contelbution to the life of this city, "He had known a number of - distinguished citizens in Shanghai who had been Pupils at the school, Venturing into the Unknown 'The life to which you are looking! forward is an adventure," continued Mx. Sheppard, It was a' coming out} Into the unknown, It was full of risks, Dut also held out the prospect of very leh rewards, He warned them not think that, because there were such things ax text books ona subject, they contained all' there was to be) Known about that subject. The' un-! Known was still-a vast continent £0r them te explore, and still "greater achievements lay before humanity than any that had gone behind, Me, Abraham recalled that speech! day used to be hold in the old Lyceum building. "Several of the fathers of! boys now at the school, he said, were school with him. "The greatest thing that " school could possess was tradition, and in the Afty years during which the school had been in existence 0 great tradition had been built up.
Their tradition lay in the teaching, of the founder of the school, who {instilled into. the earliest pupils simple faith in the things that were Rood. The Public School was one of the only schools in the world in which the pupils belonged to many different nationalities, and a feeling of real fellowship existed "In spite of this) fact,
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