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From Peru to Charlotte Soft:—Richard DcLanry's presence at Charlotte High School has gheii ns all an interesting contact. Early in 1933 his father, oh .Imericau husiiuss man in l.inni. Peru, asked the Rochester Rotary Club to locate a home for his tXVO boys, so that it would he possible for them to attend an .Imericau public high school. In September. 1933. Richard arrived anti immediately found a place in our stndeNt life. His brother. Robert, came last September. HV are happy to have in Charlotte High School these two ambas- sadors of gooa-xcill from Peru Nathaniel G West, Principal. OX account of the difference in seasons between northern and southern cli- mates. the Peruvian schools start their school year toward the end of pril. The schools end their term in Decem- ber. and January first starts their summer vacation which lasts until April fifteenth. Most of the schools are tor l oys only, be- cause ilit government has the same thought that existed here when schools were first started, namely, that girls do not need a formal education. The only co-educational institu- tions are those that are not under the govern- ment. Such schools are supported and ojier- ated by foreigners. The Colcgio Italunio (Italian School) is under the direction of Italian citizens. Another example is Colcgio Auglo-Pcrtinno which has English professors on its faculty. That school is part of the British missionary system, and expressly for Peruvian boys. The reason for this is that the Peruvian secondary schools are so poor that to receive any decent education, one must go to a school with some scholastic value. All native schools have classes every day. except Sunday and holidays, (of which there are many). They start at eight o’clock in the morning, lasting until noon, when two hours arc given for lunch. School starts again at two o'clock and ends at four in the afternoon. 'I he reason for such a long lunch hour is that some pupils live so far away from school that they need the time to go home, have lunch and return. The grammar schools have a five-year train- ing period. There is no Junior High School. When one is graduated from grammar school, he enters high school, naturally, which he attends for another five years, in contrast with our usual four years. Ten years is the length of educational studies. In the native schools, foreigners are not wel- come, especially niericans. 1I Peruvians have the idea that people other than those of their own nationality are trying to “high-hat them. This feeling is doubly fixed in the minds of the younger generation. That is one of the reasons for the outsiders having schools of their own. There are at present, a German school, where all the lessons are in German, thus limiting the student body to those who know German; an Italian school, where all subjects are taught in Italian; two or three British schools, and one American school. The subjects taught do not vary greatly from those taught in American schools, except, of course, in histories and the like. The pupils of one grade stay in one classroom all day and the teachers change classes. The class starts on tlic hour, and lasts for forty-five minutes, at the end of which there is a fifteen minute recess. Among the subjects taught is a compulsory military training course, which is required the whole ten years. No one except foreigners is excluded from this training. English is com- pulsory in all schools. There is only one examination period, that at the end of every year. All examinations are oral and written. These examinations are taken before a government representative, as he might he called, and your own teacher. Tile two tests differ greatly in form and in ques- tions asked. Usually, one class takes both written and oral examinations at the same time. There is no time limit on the examin- ations. which may last all day. student may he asked one question, or one hundred. All examinations are given by the teacher, and every pupil gets a different set of questions for one subject. (Continued on page seventeen) BLBVEX
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Around the World By Wiixiam Spears HE boat sailed from Xew York City on June 38. 1934, with Havana. Cuba my first port of call. n the wav there 1 developed wliat I think is the worst sickness anyone could contract. It was a combination of seasickness with homesickness. By the time I arrived in I Iavana I had acquired my sea-legs and my homesickness had vanished. Havana was my first taste of anv thing other than America. The first sight that greets your eves, as your ship slips into the harbor under the skillful guidance of a pilot, is Morrow Castle. I 1) From a distance out in the harlior the city looks extremely clean due to the yellowish tan color of the houses. But the truth is that the city streets are narrow and dirty. Only on the outskirts is it clean and beautiful. Next comes the Panama Canal. Everybody has read or seen pictures alnnit this canal so I will not sav anything al ut it except that it is everything that you've ever heard alxnit it. We stopjxfd in Ballma and Panama City a short time during the afternoon and left for I.os Angeles that evening. This leg of the journey took about nine days. When I arrived in Los Angeles it sure looked grand liecause this was the last city in America that I would see for three months. There was a longshore- men’s strike in California at the time and 1 could not even get olT of the dock to see the city to hi l it farewell. Something very inter- esting kept my attention the live days that we staved there. htr Imat did not go to San Francisco because the strike was too serious there. A I mat whose real name is Ruth Alex- ander” and whose reel name was San Capi- tatio, was being used in the working of the picture “The Captain Hates the Sea.” I saw Jack Gilbert, Victor McGlaglan, Allison Skip- worth. Walter Connoly. and one of Ted Healey's stooges. Xow my trip really was starting; we sailed for the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head (2 I greets you as your lioat arrives and Waikiki Beach in the distance looks like a thin thread of silk on the shore. Honolulu was in her best clothes for this was the day of days as far as she was concerned. President Roose- velt arrived the same day as we did. This was the first time in the history of the Islands that a President of the U. S. A. had ever visited them. As ottr l oat pulled slowly to the dock that beautiful song “ Vlolia. was being played by a group of Mawaiiaus as a greeting to our Ixiat. This was really how one may have dreamed of being welcomed to Hawaii. Our boat docked on the j ort side of the President’s war-ship. 1 did not waste any time trying to get a look at him. even though 1 had never seen him personally, for I could see him lack home anytime while I may never see Honolulu again. 1 went swimming at Waikiki Beach and rented a surf hoard. Boys twelve years old were riding them, and did they make me look foolish when I almost broke my neck trying to stand up on mine. Later Joe and 1 walked thru the Koval Hawaiian Hotel. We were like a couple of vagabonds in a palace, hut that didn’t bother us. ttr hobby in every I ort was to visit the most swanky hotels and ask for hotel stickers. We were never thrown out or refused. By the way. Joe was the fel- low I worked with. He was twenty-two years old and a graduate of Temple University. A real fellow. We were together during the whole trip. We left Honolulu at midnight in real tropical moonlight. This was one place on the whole trip that I regretted leaving. Xow for the fourteen day stretch to Kobe, Japan (3. 4 ). I got niv first taste of a rickisha here. I alwised the privilege by riding through the whole city for three hours straight. 1 cer- tainly felt sorry for the jnior Jap that had to pull me all that time. I went to a dance that evening and I was surprised to find what good dancers these Japanese girls were (l»cttcr than the American girls ). Shanghai. China was next (5). Shanghai is forty miles up the Yangtze River (6). The l »at was chipjwd and painted here (7). The clatter of the Coolies' hammers was too much for the pas sengers so they retreated to city hotels, t Htr fo'csle or Glory Hole” as it was called was also painted and we were forced (you can imagine how we had to he forced) to occupy the i asscnger ' cabins for the night. I felt like a king for a night when I hit that honcst- to-goodness hud in place of an iron posted hunk or hatch cover out on deck where we usually slept on hot nights. That night one (Continued on page fifty-six) I WEhYE
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