The Cathedral School for Boys moves into temporary premises in Columbia Rd, and open there on Nov. 29." This departure into more rural surroundings from Kiukiang Rd. arises from the present emergency. The school's pres ent premises as from Dee, 1 will be given over to that sorely-tried and splendid institution, the St, Luke's Hospital which has done such value able work in ministering to the victims of the crisis There will be much satisfaction that solution of St, Luke's housing problem has been found. There will be even more if it leads to 4 concerted effort for pulling that hospital on the sound financial footing it deserves, If only on accotint of the magnificent manner in which it has risen to the present opportunity St, Luke's should, once and for all, be secured against further anxiety. A combination of elreumstances has given the Management the long hoped for opportunity for removal of the Cathedral School for Boys toa more gulfable district, The School has had a disturbed term, It began. in September with temporary classes at ity already established Boarding House in Gt. Western Rd, Hostilities in the Western District impelled return to Kiukiang Road which had formerly been considered unsafe. Temporary timetables had to be used owing tothe Jate return of some of the pupils, The roll has how reached 70 and next term will see normal working. The temporary premises "have disadvantages: on outdoor facilities—and therefore climatic conditions—depends the School's expacity to parade in full and to. indulge in physical training, Measures to alleviate this drawback are in contemplation, The. chiot thing £0 note is that the Schoo! is restarting In the very situation for which its sponsors hoped. The hand of fate has, as it were, pointed the way through adversity to. the prosperous future of a well-established school equipped with the necessary amenities and fitted to play its proper part in preparing Brit~ ish Shanghailanders for their citizenship here, or if circumstances permit, for the wider scope offered by educational institutions in their motherland. Although the school may always have to act partly as preparatory to the public school in England, the general intention is. to make it provide training up to the university ud at the same time to full the requirements of the boy who wants to start his business to direct from it to a business career In Shang hal. Without neglecting the standards of the public school it seeks to cover the ground of the good-class grammar school in England by xiving attention to subjects particularly. sultable for a commercial training. As the result the generosity of the British Returned Students' Union a medal and prizes are being given for proficiency in Chinese. There, by studying the language of the country;—in' the three upper forms it will be an alternative to Latin—the pupils wilt obtain one most. valuable qualification for employment. in China.
to be hoped that with this evidence of the vigour of the policy adopted' by the Manage: ment the British community will rally to. the Support of the School und sto "at its numbers rapidly increase to justify faith in the future mapped out for i.
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