CHAPTER II
SCHOOL DAYS
The Morrison School was opened on the 1st
of November, 1839, under the charge of the Rev.
S. R. Brown who, with his wife, Mrs. Brown,
landed at Macao on the 19th of February, 1839.
Brown, who was afterwards made a D.D., was
a graduate of Yale of the class of 1832. From
his antecedents, he was eminently fitted to
pioneer the first English school in China. I
entered the school in 1841. I found that five
other boys had entered ahead of me by one year.
They were all studying primary arithmetic,
geography, and reading. I had the start of them
only in reading and pronouncing English well.
We studied English in the forenoon, and
Chinese in the afternoon. The names of the five
boys were: 1. Wong Shing; 2. Li Kan; 3. Chow
Wan; 4. Tong Chik; 5. Wong Foon. I
made the sixth one and was the youngest of
all. We formed the first class of the school, and
became Brown's oldest pupils throughout, from
first to last, till he left China in December, 1846,
on account of poor health. Half of our original
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