"Tschopp to Basel"

Gives the monthly expenditure for chop money as £1=8=0 (=35 Francs) - divided among 20 of the 25 boys in the Boarding School. Discussing the work in the school, Tschopp is most satisfied with the learning of biblical texts and hymns. Arithmetic has not gone so well, geography better - they boys are drawing reasonable maps of the most ‘important countries’ but ‘it would be better if they had geography books in their hands’. In English they have been having difficulties translating expressions which are scarcely translatable, and learning the names of objects the pupils have never seen is also difficult. Handwork is mainly clearing the station of grass, and keeping the paths clean. Tidyness leaves much to be desired - the pupils on the whole have a desire to learn, and live together peacefully. Often they spend time in their free period (5p.m. to 7 p.m.) singing. Every month they made small preaching journeys. Of the two Abetifi boys who went to the Begoro middle School, one (Imml. Agyepong) died at the beginning of 1889, but the other is carrying on with the course. A Ramseyer subscript adds that they hope now to have a Community School in Abetifi as well, to which the girls of Christian families can go as well as the boys. He hopes that with Government encouragement of education their schools will no longer be so starved of pupils.

10.07.1889

10.07.1889

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