Tae Municipal Council July 19 adopted a recommenda: tion by the Education Board that the Commissioner of Public Works be requested to. prepare, dotaled plans for a new school building for the Secondary School for Chines pore Park site accordance with. q scheme chos from three submitted by him. The scheme provides a three-storey building with an extra floor at the end to accommodate hens and service, rooms." The eu
floors. by. a "combined. gymnasium occupied on the ground and oeupied on the ground and fet
and. assembly hall, having on. the sion, the currencies of the: hat priceless heritage from scholworld indulging in a drunkard' lars of long centuries. ago? ind_ when nearly every of us would have acted as he every att" On meaty all ofthe cles of nected, bythe ne world you see the vulgar astes much to expect cheerful taipan. Immediate anxiety tation, and even riotous living, due to sudden wealth. 1 Ehinene emigrant not only practiced cairnly over the' lan' two decades dallas & month." AS a milionare and forget immediate trouble can be thankful for a "rear deal, The rather discontented member he was a noble example of dignity in prosperity.
If western science was the prim-of the Country Club was wealthy, but curiously enough had never reaalised the true reason. Tt had never occurred to him that his fortune had been made because the total Wealth in Shanghai had increased in such an amazing manner, during hig, residence there.
seized my opportunities" was explanation, and. that' satisfied but who created the oppor-was my reply.
He listened patiently to my suggestions that the main cause of the wealth now centred in Shanghai is new "knowledge of chanical devices and capital and labour and s0 have ti plied the value of land and. of property, In the early days there was only manpower. No steel structures and reinforced concrete buildings. No mills and machinetroduction factories.
Jary cause of the wealth accumulate Jed by this splendid worker, is it improbable that his endeavour to spread a knowledge of the classics China will give something to Europe? A new world eivilisatio is evolving before our eyes. being built upon the secure found tions. of scientific knowledge. It is putting power behind the worker
faueceed or fail according to how is increasing leisure, And will that leisure is employed.
Until comparatively recent times, of he ideas which have inspired pro-the human race came out} lof the East.
Have we, of the West yet absorbed all of the wisdom the East?' For many of us who live in China our ignorance of Chinese literature and traditions is a Jealamity. We are so inclined to think that what we do not under-[stand is useless.
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