But the dally attendance was growing and very soon the temporary premises at St. Joseph's were too small. A site was chosen in Nanzing Road, Hongkew, opposite the Church of the Sacred Heart and on June 8, 1884, at the break-up before the summer, holidays the Father Superior announced to the boys that they were to bid farewell to the cradle in the French Concession and migrate to the rather distant district of Hongkew—there to continue their studies in the commodious college just erected. It is not dimeult to picture the boisterous joy with which they received the good tidings. They were to have a Feal College after the Holidays.
At the time of the transfer ihe
60 Portuguese Sixth Standard 6] Nationalities Standards number of pupils was 196,
4 British Filth Standard 17 2 Chinese Fourth Standard 20 10 French Third Standard 28 10 German Second Standard 90 12 Spanish First Standard 25. 8 Japanese Infant Does 21 6 American 2nd Division 42. 4 Greek Bro, Emillan as Director The Rev. Brother Emilian, Director, of the frst group of Marist Brothers who came to Shanghai in 1993, had spent the first few years of his regious life in South Africa, and later in Sydney. One of his assistants there was. the Rev. Bro. Frederick, who In 1894 followed him to China to leach the senior pupils. "Brother Cleophas was also one of those brothers who in "Sydney had worked with Brother Emilian and he came to China in 1891 and for four years was Director of the little school for foreign children in Tientsin til in September 1895 he was appointed Procurator at St Francis Xavier's.
Brother Cleophas was in Peking 1900 when the Boxers laid siege to the Petng and was one of its any defenders. He oled in Peking Brother Ennilian directed the college from August 1895 to June 1898. At that time, owing to failing health, he returned to France where he died 1900. When he left Shanghat there were 420 pupils in the college. His Immediate successor was Brother Antonin, previously Director of St. Louis' College, Tientsin.
Up to the year 1900 370 Chinese; students had been educated in the allege. Unfortunately in that year the events of May and June in Peking, the Boxer rising and the uncertainty of the situation had their repercussion on the Chinese pupils. Within a short time the school had lost nearly 100 pupils.
In that summer of 1900 at the siege of the Catholic Mission in Peking; Brother Jules-Andre, Provincial, was killed by the Boxers three days before the Capital was relieved. He had been sub-director of the college under Brother Emillan in 1896 and Renaissance after Boxers Fait The failure of the Boxer rising] convinced even the most conservative elements in the Empire that a new system of education was needed; and it is said that, even before she left Hslanfu to return to her old Capital, the Empress Dowager issued an edict requiring the Mandarins of the Empire to study political science and internationa? law. Immediately after her return to Peking, she appointed committee to draft a public school system. As a consequence of these measures there followed upon the troubled times of 1901 a real "Rennaissance," and the movement started then has continued down to the pres ent day.
Brother Prudent, one of the first group of Marist Brothers who came with Brother Emilian to Shanghai 1893, was appointed Headmaster of the Chinese Department which became partly independent. In 1902, Brother Paschal Louis _became director of the college and remained in office till September 1904 when he was appointed ce-director of the Sacred Heart College in Canton and Brother Antonin succeeded him.
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