To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cuina Day News'
Si—Many of your readers will have' read with much pleasure the Wen" in this morning's Daily News" of the determined endeavour which is to be made to take, the Cathedral School {nfo a, more suitable environment than that presented by the centre of great city like Shanghai, AN will wish that the movement may meet with the success it merits. "The school has a Headmaster who has ideale: it we realize what these are we shall feel more than justified in advocating a change which presents possibly rather unique diMeulties Swing {o the Trust conditions under which the schoo! is financed and run, By good luck many years ago 1 was fortunate in choosing for my two boys perhaps the most progress sive school in England at that time—'Oundle, And it' was my custom alter speech Day to slay on for another day and walk round the school discussing matters of mutual interest with Sanderson. We did not always agree on the matters we discussed (wide Mr. H. G, Wells' "Sanderson of Oundle") but one of the things upon which we were at one was, "the balance of studier and of work and play." Few of the parents knew how carefully Sanderson thought this out and arranged for it in the develop-mont of the school and In the "organization of the school work, Feallzed this fully because in my departments. at both Bradford and Leeds T hed actually found out what difference well-balanced courses made to. my. students. As these students were usually of the normal university type they were not conte ent to work under conditions which they were not realizing their potentialities; thus again and -again Sludents came to me. for readjust-there, and to the Chinese who wish to. know what a typical British Public School really is, a model inslitutlon truly representative of all that ig. best In British educational deals, 1t cannot be so under present conditions: it is up to the British Community of Shanghai to help to change this and to evolve a schoo! of all may be justly proud.
Avoneo F. Banker,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.