Found inside... more than one language , more than one religion . " — Mr. Lee Kuan Yew , Prime Minister of Singapore , speaking speaking at Singapore's Raffles ' Institution Founder's Day Ceremony on June 6 , 1969 . PREFACE This book is a joint effort ... Found inside – Page 86Well, memory is tricky business here, where a graveyard one day could become a KFC ... as did the Raffles Institution, a school founded by the "founder ... Found insideAmbiavagar went back to Raffles Institution and also became a part-time English tutor ... Governor of Singapore on Raffles Institution's Founders' Day in 1954. Found inside – Page 134Stamford Raffles during his last days in Singapore , the young but fast rising city of his creation , called for the ... Its founder's visions were not , however , pursued by those who followed him , and Raffles Institution passed through many ... Found inside – Page 15Singapore will survive and prosper so long as it puts its trust in human resources , organisation , ingenuity and ... ( The Foreign Minister speaking on the 151st Founder's Day at Raffles Institution , on 31st May ) RAFFLES FOUNDED Value of ... Found inside – Page 134Stamford Raffles during his last days in Singapore , the young but fast rising city of his creation , called for the ... Its founder's visions were not , however , pursued by those who followed him , and Raffles Institution passed through many ... Found inside – Page 111In the Malay peninsula , as elsewhere , CHAPTER the Roman Catholic Missionaries in past days stood in front of their Protestant rivals in power of ... The most important of them is the Raffles Institution , called after the founder of Singapore ! Found inside – Page 2Titled “Raffles Institution now a 'middle-class' school, says principal” (Teng, ... the principal's speech delivered on the school's 192nd Founders' Day. Found inside – Page 6The institution was not aware of he link between the two documents ind so they were subsequently stored away separately . ... The letter in Jawi also has a wax seal set on the top right - hand margin with Raffles ' signature scrawled vertically under it . ... There is something exciting about building new brands , " says Mr Batey , founder and chairman of the Batey Group , one of the largest advertising companies in ... He told us his dream was to play for the national team one day . Found inside – Page 111In the Malay peninsula , as elsewhere , CHAPTER III . the Roman Catholic Missionaries in past days stood in front of their Protestant rivals in power ... The most important of them is the Raffles Institution , called after the founder of Singapore 1 . Found inside – Page 81The Raffles Institution soon assumed the mantle of the premier school of the ... Lim Boon Keng later became one of the promoters and founders of the ... Found inside – Page 39Raffles Institution principal Eugene Wijeysingha speaking at the 163rd Founders Day celebrations of Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College in 1986. Found inside – Page 111In the Malay peninsula , as elsewhere , CHAPTER the Roman Catholic Missionaries in past days stood in front of their Protestant rivals in power of ... The most important of them is the Raffles Institution , called after the founder of Singapore 1 . Found insideSpeech by Minister for Education Mr Ong Ye Kung, at the 2019 Raffles Institution Founder's Day, on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019 from ... Found inside – Page 14On Founder's Day, I think it was. He sat cross-legged in a row of boys at the field-target range and sang to himself to pace his breathing. Found inside – Page 411and Malaya, and comprised one of the founders of the Straits Steamship Company. ... Singapore Institution (1823; renamed the Raffles Institution in 1868), ... Found inside – Page 134Stamford Raffles during his last days in Singapore , the young but fast rising city of his creation , called for the ... Its founder's visions were not , however , pursued by those who followed him , and Raffles Institution passed through many ... Found inside – Page 142Speaking at the Raffles Institution Founder's Day Ceremony on June 6 , 1969 , the Prime Minister , Mr. Lee Kuan Yew reaffirmed the government's policy of equal opportunities to all , regardless of ethnicity , language , or religion : we are ... Found inside – Page 13In 1868, after the Singapore Library moved out of the Singapore Institution, the latter was renamed Raffles Institution, in honour of its founder. Found inside – Page 137Hong donated $2 million at RI's July 1992 Founder's Day dinner, at the time the single largest donation to the school by an alumnus. Found inside – Page 3If they have more than one day at their disposal , they should devote it to a trip of about 7 miles to Bukit Timah ( 519 feet ) , the highest hill of the island , from ... Raffles Institution . Founded by Sir Stamford Raffles , the founder of Singapore . Found inside – Page 786Education in commercial subjects was supplied at a number of schools but Raffles Institution , the St. Joseph's ... Singapore , and the Government Commercial Day School , Penang , were the only schools fully equipped and staffed for the proper teaching of these subjects . ... One or two schools had “ Founders ' Days " . Found inside – Page 160These days, Nanyang maintains a website on which it flashes its values in both ... the Raffles Institution, begun by the city's colonial founder himself, ... Found insideRaffles even published reports of its Speech Day in his Government Java Gazette. ... now in a brand new building on Raffles Road – The Raffles Institution. Found inside – Page 168... Mr Eugene Wijeysingha Principal Raffles Institution 1 Raffles Institution Lane Singapore 2057 Talo Dear the wyeg This ... Thank you again Mr Wijey , I know I am going to miss your enlightened speeches on founder's day and your annual ... Found inside – Page 64Goh K S , “ Education Reform " , speech at Anglo - Chinese School 81s Founder's Day dinner , 1967 , reprinted in Goh K S , The ... 15 Raffles Girls ' School , Methodist Girls ' School , Saint Joseph's Institution , Singapore Chinese Girls ' School ... Found inside – Page 821... 491, 494 'Founder's Day', 665 and Centenary Day, 790 Raffles Museum, ... and Raffles Institution, 491 memorial tablet to, unveiled, 788 Centenary Day ... Found inside – Page 165... time , a water supply of 31,000,000 gallons a day will be available , compared with a present supply of 22,000,000 gallons . ... in Singapore and a fitting memorial of the city's founder will be provided by the rebuilding of the Raffles Institution . Found inside – Page 147Founder's Day 1961 was indeed a grand and colourful ceremony . Sheds were erected all around the field so that the entire school , both morning and afternoon , could participate . A red carpeted dais was set up in the centre of the field for the ... Found insideSir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) stands out as the founder of modern Singapore. ... in 1823, which eventually became Raffles Institution. (Lim and Chan, p. Found inside – Page 212Luckily , we have at hand an Institution which was intended by its founder for exactly this purpose , for the diffusion of education throughout ... I refer to the Raffles Institution , and I hope the Council will pardon me if i detain them for a few moments to shew how it is that the ... of ancient history , something like what I told this Council when I addressed it the other day with regard to Tan Tock Seng's Hospital . Found inside – Page 102... when the principal of the prestigious school Raffles Institution (RI), Chan Poh Meng, delivered a speech at the RI 192nd Founders' Day in July 2015. Found inside – Page 81St. Mary's CHURCH , On week days , 6.30 a . m . and 5-30 p.m. Serangoon . On Saturdays , at 6.30 a.m. and 6-30 p.m. Vicar Rev. C. Saleilles Schools , & c . S.S. PETER AND PAUL'S CHURCH . RAFFLES INSTITUTION . Queen Street . Found inside – Page 62The literacy rate can be expected to be higher to - day . ... THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTION LIBRARY , 1823-44 The Singapore Institution was founded in 1823 by Sir Stamford Raffles , the founder of Singapore ... 1 But Raffles ' successors were less far - sighted , and took no interest in the Institution , so that after various ... Found inside – Page 61Real Challenges Just Beginning 29 JULY 2006 Raffles Junior College 25th College Day - cum - 183rd Founder's Day Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs I was in Raffles Institution from 1972 to 1977. It was a different ... Found insideMrs Lee The first time I came up close to Mr Lee was in 1969, at the Raffles Institution's Founder's Day celebrations. Because of the riots in Kuala Lumpur, ... Found inside – Page 154The other recommendations for independent schools included single session days , teacher - pupil ratio to be reduced to ... Goh Chok Tong at the 162nd Founders Day celebrations at Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College in May 1985. Found inside – Page 270Apart from the doubtful right of resuming land granted to an institution for its permanent support , resumption , according to the public ... Sir Stamford Raffles , however , had been looking ahead , and to - day no better situation for the institution could be found . ... added the present Prize Hall and three - storied wing adjoining it . carrying out the original intentions of the founder , the right to re - occupy the ... Found inside – Page 101A Tiny Nation's Saga from Founder to Accomplisher George J. Fernandez ... On Tuesday 17 February , General Yamashita transferred his hq to Raffles Institution . He refused to ... Instead , Yamashita fixed Friday 20 February as a day of ceremonial commemoration for the war dead at the Raffles Institution grounds . On Bukit ... Found inside – Page 33For many years now Raffles Institution has been splendidly staffed and its Founder would have little cause to worry about the future . The dark days are over , and soon there will be another building named after him - Raffles College — which ... Found inside – Page 109... openning of a new building for Chong Hock Girls' School and Ai Tong School by the Singapore Hokkien community and Raffles Institution's Founders' Day, ... Found inside – Page 43He went to school. to Raffles Institution. ... He was the founder of the Tuan Mong School in Tank Road. He was also the founder of Ngee Ann Kongsi. Found inside – Page 83Founder's day 2015: PRI's speech. Raffles News. Available at: http://www.ri.edu.sg/UIs/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=4i3je77wxy33msjl3byk6mi os4%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D. Found inside – Page 605... to the establishment of the Singapore Institution (Raffles Institution, as it is known today) in 1823, by Singapore's founder - Sir Stamford Raffles. Found inside – Page 18Finally, the Principal of Raffles Institution, one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in Singapore, admitted in the 2015 Founder's Day Speech that ... Found inside – Page 203Raffles ” Institution 169-172 ; Rhenish Mission in Sumatra , 114 . ... 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