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Show 73 - " The Academy has successfully organized a Student Help Department, whereby 35 students are earning part or all of their expenses. All boys aided by the Greatvale station, or receiving scholarships from the school, are required to work for half of what they receive. Other poor boys, as far as the school is able, are given work enough to cover half, and in some cases all, their expenses. Many more than the 35 employed desire work . . . . They act as tutors, manager oft he duplicating machine, accountants, gate-keeper, table waiters (both in the student kitchen and the foreign residence), office boy, stable boy, water carriers, janitors, barber, general roustabouts, and gardeners. This has great significance when one realizes that in the mind of the Chinese the age-long idea of a scholar is of a man with long finger nails, soft hands, and effeminate in all his ways. This is a product of evolving China impossible as yet in many schools. We ought to have a special gift of $200 to buy some kn'tting machines, which could be used to a profit, so that all poor boys that want to help themselves can do so." From Mr. Wolfe's observations with regard to the teaching staff of the Academy we learn that "The faculty has not had the esteemed services of Mr. H. H. K'ung during the past year, as he has been acting as General Secretary for the Chinese Student Y. M. C. A. in Tokyo, Japan . . . . Dr. and Mrs. Husted have lent valuable aid and inspiration, especially to the many boys who want to learn English." Speaking of the needs of his department, Mr. Wolfe writes, "We need the Oberlin alumni to get back of the Association with large gifts for equipment and for a sufficient budget ...We need $8,000 for a Recitation Building to accommodate three hundred students. If we had the building we could fill it with students as soon as completed, and it would add greatly to the already good reputation of the school in the minds of the Chinese. We need $1,000 for teachers' buildings, so that teachers can bring their families and become an integral part of the institution. We need $300 for much needed repairs in the Flower Garden. One pavilion fell down several years ago, and another building is almost ready to fall because of the sinking of a wall. The woodwork of the entire Garden needs a new coat of paint. We would like $150 to buy a set of band instruments. The school has already made a reputation for its singing. Ar. Association Band would be a good advertising agency here in the heart of China, both for the school and for the Mission, especially to the gentry and official class. " The complement of the educational work for boys in the "Flower Card;n is that being done for girls in the "Precious Dew" Memorial School in the South Compojnd. Miss Heebner's report includes the following interesting items: "Forty-one different girls have been enrolled during the year, and 15 to 18 more in the day school. Quite a number of the boarders are new girls. Seven are here from the rich families of Ch'ewang (a village in the southern part of the Elm Inn district), and the prospects are that more will come from there in another year. These are splendid girls, and make us long for more " Dusting " These are school-girls in spite of the trousers! |