year, but both this Anglo-Chinese Department and the Chinese Division labour under the disadvantage, disheartening to the teachers, that the majority of the scholars in these two sections of the School attach comparatively little or no interest to progress in Chinese studies, and do not, therefore, give to them the same application or anything like the zeal with which the same scholars approach their English lessons.
18. The subjoined Tables exhibit, in detail, the results obtained by my examination of the several sections and classes of the Central School both in English and Chinese subjects:—
1883.—Government Central School. English Examination. Number of Passes in each Subject in each Class.
CLASS.
I.
II. III.
IV.
V. VI.
VII. VIII.
IX. X.
XI.
Total Number of Scholars examined,. Total Number of Scholars passed,
888
28 18
8888
29 20 22 43
22
22 42
28565
888
30
36
32 48 65 14
26
36
31 47
64
14
+4
Writing,
Reading,
27
18
Arithmetic,
22
13
Dictation,
14
11
21
Translation, English into Chinese,
27
18
Translation, Chinese into English,
26
14
Grammar,
26
13
Geography,
21
15
Map-drawing,
28 18
Composition,.
28 18
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20 42
26
30
86
32 45
21
25
14
14
14
11 28
21
26
30
36 30
42 26
29
36 32 45
19
41
26
16
29
28
16 43
22
17 36
29 46
21 40
23 36
26
23
21
34
25
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65
14
61
14
55
7
46
50
13
61
11
43
59
11
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21
Euclid,
21
15
18
History,.....
20
11
...
Algebra,
17
Mensuration,
17
1883.-Government Central School. Chinese Examination. Number of Passes in each Subject in each Class.
CLASS.
Number of Scholars examined,
Number of Scholars passed,
Essay Writing,
Poetical Composition,
Letter Writing,
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
*9* *8*
45
56
72
44
53
53
44
51
68
32
47
47
44
46
20
SERE
2*8*2
26
45
29
11
12
93
23
12
18
Я
9
23
11
1883.---Government Central School. Anglo-Chinese Examination. Number of Passes in each Subject in each Division.
DIVISION.
Number of Scholars examined,
Number of Scholars passed,..
Dictation, Reading,
Copy Writing, Translation,
Radicals,
I.
II.
20
2
15
10
:: 858 G
15
18
III.
CO 10
606
5
110 11010
5
IV.
10
7
DO
1
10
0086
19. The Government Normal School has been closed. The Principal, Mr. MAY, has been trans- ferred to strengthen the staff of the Central School. Two of the former students of the Normal School are now employed in the Colony as teachers in English Schools, and one has been appointed interpreter in the local Sanitary Department. The remaining four students of the Normal School entered a Hospital of the Chinese Government at Tientsin as medical students.
20. The Anglo-Chinese Schools of the Government, located at Saiyingp'ún, Wántsai, Stanley and Wongnaich'ung have shown good results in the year 1883 as formerly. But the working of the Government School at Yaumáti has been very unsatisfactory both in its English and Chinese teaching. The people living at Yaumáti, mostly boat people, appear to have as little desire for English teaching