The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-12-01

defeat. Last season our basketball
team ranked second in the Shanghai
Foreign League, which is composed Of
eight teams, and our chances are as
strong this year. The soccer and bas-
ketball seasons overlap somewhat,
so most Of our older boys play the
latter game while the younger boys
play the former. American football
is not played by the other members
of the league, but we have four teams
practicing for inter-class contests and
expect to have some games with the
Shanghai civilian eleven and perhaps
some games with Navy elevens.
Our students win their share of
honor in American colleges. Two
members Of last years class are on
the Yale editorial staff and it ap-
pears very probable that another is
Yale's best bid for the hundred-yard
dash. Several of our students have
won scholarships in American col
leges.
The Standard Oil Co., with 222 men
on their staff in China, is the largest
American organization in the Orient
save one. That one is the Shanghai
American School. If you would see
happy bunch just come to pay us
a visit. Everyone is happy, even
the faculty. We have as our obiec.
tive the normal life, consequently we
have very little sickness in spite of
he fact that deadly germs are prev.
alent on every hand. We drink no
water that has not been put thru the
prescribed purifying process, and we
boil the milk that we use with GER
calls, etc. Milk to drink is far more
rare than day in June. The last
hat | had was in Vancouver. But we
have lots of good eats that folks in
the states never have. I have gained
ten pounds since August 9. Last
Sunday evening boy No. served
Chinese dinner to the members of our
staff. 1t consisted of 90 courses, and
| surely gained several pounds on
that very occasion. l believe
passed on only three courses, which
we're sharks firms, slugs and century
eggs.
Now if you will pardon these al
lusions to myself, I'll return to the
main subject of my letter.
The new school will be situated in
the French concession and the Amer.
lean population has already begun to
drift in that direction. 1t is expect
ed that our enrolment will reach
1000 within the next ten years, the
management is planning a school
plant that will make provisions for
this expansion. The establishment,
when completed, will have cost about
a million dollars, but the grounds and
initial buildings will cost only $685.
600. Of this amount $4,000 have
already been subscribed by the vari-
Gus mission boards and friends of
the school in America and in Shang-
hal. This week a campaign will be
waged to raise the remaining $780,
900 in Shanghai. All indications
point toward success. The big busi-
ness firms are back of the project
unanimously. There are 1850 Amer
leans in this town who are expected
to subscribe something, and l3 teams
each consisting of ten members have
been selected to take the subscrip-
tions.
The school up to the present time
has been controlled entirely by mis-
sion boards, but henceforth the board
will be composed Of an equal number
of mission workers and business men,
and half the current expenses will be
paid by the business constituency.
l could write more, but l must 60
to church.
Joe VanHook