資料：1924年3月4日《The China Mail》第9頁
ST. PAUL’S COLLEGE.
FIFTEENTH YEAR OF AGE CELEBRATED.
The fifteenth year in the life of St. Paul’s College was completed and celebrated at the annual prize distribution last night. The Bishop of Victoria presided over a large gathering of visitors and Sir Claud Severn handed out the awards.
In presenting the annual report, the Rev. A.D.Stewart, the Principal, said:
To-night we complete fifteen years of the present school’s existence in St. Paul’s College and at is satisfactory to be able to report further advance in several directions.
Both enrolment and attendance have shown improvement. On December 4 there were 485 names on the roll and 472 in actual attendance, both of which are the highest figures yet recorded. The average attendance has also shown improvement being 88% for the whole year and over 93% for the last four months. Also 47 students have had an unbroken record for the year, of those seven have now attended for two full years without missing a single day while two others, Loh Chi-hing has done the same for three years and Chan Ping Kam for four years.
THE STUDIES.
On the whole good work has been done in all the classes which has been reflected in the results of the recent Examinations, especially in the Junior Division in which we had 78% passes, a great advance on last year. One noticeable improvement has been a fortnightly inspection of exercise books, with marks given for neatness, and a Challenge Shield presented to the best class, which has led to very satisfactory results. Sports have, as in the past, played an important part in the school’s activities. We were particularly gratified at winning for the second time the Challenge Shield presented by H.E. the Governor to the school winning most points in the Annual Schools’ Sports, and also at winning the Relay Race in the same sports. We had many times been second but had never before won the race. Neither football, Volleyball nor basketball figured much in league matches during the past year. Swimming, too, was as popular as ever during the summer and though no notable swimmers were produced, we closed the season with close upon one hundred who had passed the swimming test.
EXTENSION OF THE SCHOOL.
In the way of bricks and mortar we note a further step in advance and it is with feelings of great satisfaction that we see the beginnings of the enlargement of the College Chapel and Wu Ting-fang Hall which we have long needed. In fact it is just four years ago that Sir Claud Severn referred to his extension, on just such an occasion as this, and it was largely through his kind offices that the preliminary stages were taken whereby we obtained the necessary land. It is impossible to express how much the school owes to the steady plodding work of the members of the staff who undertake with such ready cheerfulness the “daily round, the common task.”
THE MORAL SIDE.
The moral and religions side of the work, which to some of us figures most prominently, has been kept well to the fore. Several of the boys have been baptised during the year and one, we rejoice to say, has decided to enter the Theological College, with a view to being prepared for Holy Orders. He makes the fifth of our students to take this step. Much useful work has also been done by the students. The free school at Causeway Bay has been kept going largely through the subscriptions of the boys and a Christians entertainment was also given out of the same fund. The free night school, carried on in these buildings, by the Hostel boarders has had another successful year. During the summer holidays a Summer School was held in the premises, in conjunction with a number of others carried on in different parts of Hongkong under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., and several of the Staff and boys gave up the best part of a month to teaching and giving a happy time to small boys and girls off the streets. Altogether 125 children were enrolled and they were taught to read Chinese, drill, basket work, needle work and, what was perhaps as good as anything else, how to play games.
Another new venture this year has been the forming of a troop of Scouts in the school under Scoutmasters C.L.Becher and S.P.Wong.
THE LATE MR. BANKER.
It is not usual to sound a note of sadness in a report such as this, but we cannot leave unmentioned the loss so recently sustained by the school in the Home-call of Mr. George Banker who for the past four years has been a member of the College Council and firm friend of the school. When the Extension Fund was started for building the Hostel, he not only consented to be the treasurer but also collected subscriptions and himself subscribed largely to the fund.
To another member of our College Council, one who from the earliest days of the school has been a staunch supporter and friend, Mr. S.W.Tso, we extend the must hearty congratulations of the whole school on the will earned honour he has just received in the form of an Honorary Degree at the University. This school owes a deep debt of gratitude to Dr. S.W.Tso over a period of many years and we are glad of the opportunity of making public acknowledgment of it, and all the more because his life exemplifies what we never cease to emphasise in this school, and that is that the best life is the life spent in service for others. If we thought that in this school we were equipping boys only for money making and worldly success we should have small satisfaction in the work, but each evidence of a willingness to give up for others, of a desire to serve others, gives an added impetus to our joy in the work and an increased stimulus to press forward to the ideal we have set before ourselves in our school song, “to send from these walls a noble band, who will work for the good of their country.”
Before presenting the prizes, Sir Claud Severn said they had at last begun to build the extension of the chapel and the hall to be built underneath it, which will be called that fine old gentleman, the late Dr. Wu Ting-fang. Sir Claud had the honour of meeting him at Canton shortly before his death. He was extremely pleasant and courteous, as he always was. They had escaped a danger during the last year or so, and that was of having their beautiful site dissected by a wide road. He knew it created a certain amount of consternation to think that they would be separated into two islands, as it were, and that all these fine buildings would disappear. Now, he saw a beautiful new building on the left, and presumed that in the future they would see further new buildings. He was perfectly certain that with the advancement they had been continually making it would not be long before they should see other class-rooms arising to take the place of a building which, to some extent, had outlived its purpose.
Prize Winners were:-
Class-1., 1st Tam Pui-chiu.
Class-2A., 1st Yau Sung-pun.
Class-3A., 1st Yuen Chim-fan.
Class-3B., 1st Liu Fuk-pui.
Class-Up 4A., 1st Au Tat-ting.
Class-Up 4B., 1st Lau Kui-chi.
Class-Low 4A., 1st Ma Shu-ling.
Class-Low 4B., 1st Chan Fung-hak.
Class-Low 4C., 1st Yeung Ping-cheung.
Class-5A., 1st Chan But.
Class-5B., 1st Cheng Tai-ping.
Class-6A., 1st Ng Ping-kwong.
Class-6B., 1st Ng Mo-sau.
Class-7A., 1st Yuen Shui-yuen.
Class-7B., 1st Lau Po-kui.
Class-7C., 1st Tang Nai-chiu.
Class-8., 1st Tam Ping-sun.
Class-8B., 1st Yu Sik-yan.
Class-8C., 1st Tong See-yan.
Special Prizes.-
Attendance – Chan Ping-kam, Loh Chi-hing;
Lander Scholarship – Eugene Locke, O Ke-chuen, Leung Ping-chui;
Dux Gold Medal – Tam Pui-chui.
翻譯：
聖保羅書院
15周年誌慶
聖保羅書院校舍已啟用15周年，並於昨晚舉行周年嘉許禮。主禮嘉賓是維多利亞會督，現場亦有大批人士出席，施勳爵士(Sir Claud Severn)出席頒授獎品。
校長史超域牧師(Rev. A.D.Stewart)宣讀了周年報告：
今晚是聖保羅書院啟用第15周年，我很榮幸可以向各位報告學校多方面的狀況。
本校的收生及出勤表現均有改善。12月4日，本校取錄了485名學生，共472名學生出席上學，以上均打破了紀錄。出勤率亦有所改善，全年出勤率達88%，過去4個月亦超過93%。47名學生保持全勤出席紀錄，其中包括7名學生連續2年全勤，羅志興(Loh Chi-hing) 3年全勤，陳炳錦(Chan Ping Kam)則連續4年全勤出席。
學習表現
由考試表現可以得知，各級表現均十分良好，其中初中的合格率亦提升至78%，比去年更好。主要的提升方法是加強對功課的檢查、加入個人整潔評分，以及設立班際「挑戰盾」(Challenge Shield)。我們亦很榮幸於校際運動會中，第2次奪得總督閣下的「挑戰盾」，並於接力賽事奪得冠軍，多年來我們只得亞軍，今年終於成功了。足球、排球及棒球比賽方面則表現一般。至於夏天最受歡迎的游泳活動，雖然沒有產生出傑出泳手，但我們亦有接近100名學童通過游泳測試。
擴建校舍
在擺滿磚塊及水泥的路旁，我們可以預期書院禮拜堂及伍廷芳堂(Wu Ting-fang Hall)即將開始動工。其實施勳爵士於4年前已得知擴建事宜，託賴閣下下屬的鼎力協助，我們得到了相應的土地，並進入前期施工階段。相關職工對如此穩定單調的工作，仍可繼續保持愉快心情，學校對此表以無言感激。
德育
德育及宗教工作，一直是本校的重點工作。本年度幾名學童已獲受洗。另外值得高興的，是一名學童決定攻讀神學院，為將來領受聖職有所準備，他將會是第5名走向聖職的學童。其他學生亦有所奉獻，他們的捐獻使銅鑼灣的義學以及教會活動得以延續。而寄宿學生營辦的夜間義學亦相當成功。暑假期間，在基督教青年會(Y.M.C.A.)的協調下，多校教職員及學生在本校舉辦了暑期課程，他們捨棄了假期的寶貴時間，為街童帶來了美好時光。前後有125名小童入讀，並教導了他們中文閱讀、體操、手籃製作、針線，以及對他們來說可能最好的：如何進行遊戲。
另外一項新嘗試，是於學校組織童軍旅，並由畢沙老師(C.L.Becher)及黃韶本老師(S.P.Wong)出任旅長(Scoutmaster)。
緬懷班卡先生
在周年報告中加入傷心的報告不是太好，但我們亦希望在此緬懷蒙主寵召的班卡先生(Mr. George Banker)。過去4年中，他是我們校董會的一員，亦是我校堅定的朋友。當本校擴建宿舍時，他不但出任司庫，積極籌款，並主動捐出了大筆款項。
另外要提及的，是校董會另一位成員曹善允先生(Mr. S.W.Tso)，他自學校成立之初就一直支持著，是我校堅定的朋友。我們恭賀曹先生於近期於大學堂取得榮譽學位資歷。多年來，本校對曹博士深懷感激，亦不妨向各位宣示，他的品格行為，亦是多年來本校的準則，就是為他人服務的精神。如果本校只是為培養孩童成為賺錢工具或知名人士，那我們的目標就已算是達成了。但培養捨己為人、為人服務的心，則為我們的工作帶來更大的動力，激勵著我們向理想進發，如同校歌所言，「由此誕生，高貴之群，一心一德，為國為民」(to send from these walls a noble band, who will work for the good of their country)。
在頒發獎勵前，施勳爵士表示終於看見禮拜堂得以動工，而禮拜堂下層的會堂，將以一位以故老紳士伍廷芳博士(Dr. Wu Ting-fang)命名。施勳爵士有幸於博士在世時於廣州拜訪了他，他是一如既往的和藹與有禮。這所美麗的學校於去年曾出現重大問題，就是會被收地以建設道路，爵士一直擔憂著學校會被道路一分為二，精美的建築群亦會由此遭受破壞。此時此刻，爵士看著左邊的新建築，就估計日後會看到更多新的建設。他非常肯定，隨著學校的發展，將會有更多教室的落成，以代替現時已超出其用途限制的建築。
得獎人士如下：
第1班：第1名 譚培超(Tam Pui-chiu)
第2A班：第1名 游崇彬(Yau Sung-pun)
第3A班：第1名 袁錦帆(Yuen Chum-fan)
第3B班：第1名 蘭福培(Lan Fuk-pui)
第4A高班：第1名 歐德廷(Au Tat-ting)
第4B高班：第1名 劉貴枝(Lau Kui-chi)
第4A低班：第1名 馬樹齡(Ma Shu-ling)
第4B低班：第1名 陳峰鶴(Chan Fung-hak)
第4C低班：第1名 楊炳章(Yeung Ping-cheung)
第5A班：第1名 陳拔(Chan But)
第5B班：第1名 鄭太平(Cheng Tai-ping)
第6A班：第1名 吳炳光(Ng Ping-kwong)
第6B班：第1名 吳茂修(Ng Mo-sau)
第7A班：第1名 袁萃員(Yuen Shui-yuen)
第7B班：第1名 劉寶駒(Lau Po-kui)
第7C班：第1名 鄧乃超(Tang Nai-chiu)
第8班：第1名 譚炳新(Tam Ping-sun)
第8B班：第1名 余錫仁(Yu Sik-yan)
第8C班：第1名 唐思仁(Tong See-yan)
特別獎勵：
出勤獎：陳炳錦、羅志興
蘭德獎學金(Lander Scholarship)：尤金樂(Eugene Locke)、歐可全(O Ke-chuen)、梁炳瑞(Leung Ping-chui)
一等金章(Dux Gold Medal)：譚培超