St. Francis Xavier's College witt be celebrating its fiftieth birthday in October next and elaborate _preparations are already under way to Observe the occasion. A proposal that it would be advisable and desirable to have something that—will Serve asa permanent souvenir of the Golden Jubilee, such as a scholarship plan, is being very enthusiastically received and it appears most likely that the scheme will be ut into effect. St. Xavier's and the Marist Brothers, under Brother Director Antonin, will undoubtedly receive the congratulations of the community on this occasion and on. the many <cholastic successes attained by students of this institution in practically every examination for which they have sat. Apart from the excellent results achieved in the Cambridge examinations, St. Xavier's boys here, for about twonty_ suecessive years, carried off the Shanghai Engineering Bursary and their mathematics have generally been the best at the former exams. Excel-Tent work is being carried on at a minimum cost, the school being a religious one, having always been forced to carry on within the limits of its small budget, but the pupils Feceive their full money's worth and more, There is always a strong demand for admission and each term see hundreds turned away, dis. appointed, for lack of space. At pre-_ sent, 1,400 pupils are accommodated in the Foreign and Chinese Departments and, of these. 160 are_boarders. A feature. of the Foreign Department is the great number nationalities represented therein—33. {in all last term. Although St. Xavvier's is essentially a Roman Catho-Tie institution, there are mo. fewer than six religions represented among! the students, all of whom, from the lage of seven to eighteen, live _to-Gether under the same strict diseip-
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