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"The entire question of recreation is beset with difficulties. The College grounds are "fairly large but sharply and strongly marked off into Southern, Central and Northern areas respectively. Football and Cricket are possible only in the Northern area, and "then only at a costly expenditure of material. The Valley is distant (a serious matter "when time is short and many of the boys poor) and no proper site can be uninterruptedly "used. Bowrington Plantation will provide sites shortly, but the distance must always prove a drawback. Where one master only organises and regularly attends sports it "is very uphill work. The mere playing, on invitation, in an important match, is "kindly but useless from any sustaining and developing standpoint.'
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16. ANNUAL EXAMINATION.-Two courses were open to me, in conducting the examination this year. Either to set easier papers, and report that this course was adopted on account of the disorganised year's work; or to adhere to the usual severe standard, and claim lenient judgment on the same plea. I preferred the latter course, in the interests of comparative statistics, which would become valueless with an uncertain standard. The total number examined was 587, of whom 520 or 88 per cent. passed, i.e. a loss of 5 per cent. on last year, though in 1894 we had only three-quarters of a school year; a result which cannot be viewed as despicable. The three sections of the College are thus represented :-
Upper School.
Lower School....... Preparatory....
Boys examined.
Passed percentage.
1894
1893
1894
1893
217
190
88
90
.201
280
.169
155
82 93
92
96
From the above figures it is clear, that the Lower School has suffered most, and this was reasonably to be expected. As I have above reported, the Upper School was more steady in attendance during the Plague while the Preparatory, being usually examined on a half-year's work, was not much affected by that calamity. With the exception of Arithmetic, Geography and History, the general percentages of subjects are fairly up to the mark. The figures obtained in Colloquial, Reading and Latin exceed last year's. The fatally small percentages in some classes in a few subjects is the result of the presence of idly disposed or less mentally robust scholars, who naturally found it more difficult to recover lost time. I think that the masters deserve credit for their steady application in the face of peculiarly depressing circumstances, while some of them are entitled to special commendation for results hardly inferior to the average year.
17. The usual Tables of the number of boys examined and passed in each subject, and of percentages of passes are here subjoined :-
TABLE I.-NUMBER OF BOYS PASSED IN EACH SUBJECT, 1894.
CLASS.
Total No. Examined.
Total No. Passed.
Colloquial.
Reading.
Arithmetic.
Dictation.
English to Chinese.
Chinese to English.
Grammar.
Geography.
Map Drawing.
Composition.
History.
Algebra.
Euclid.
General Intelligence.
Book-keeping.
Shakespeare.
Latit.
IA., IB.,
N 1, ...................
N 2, IIA....
IIB.,
15 14 15 14 11 10 15 13 14
19 16 13 19
10
14 13 14 14 11 5 8 11
12
7 11 4 4
3 14 12
14
14
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15 8 9 18 3
12
12
11
7 13
14 10
11
5 3
10
2 3
9 2
4 1
N 3,
N 4,
7 6 7
26 25 24 26 20 19 23
25 22 14 11 11 14 4 12
7 3 6
22 24 17 18 23
IIIA.,
38 34 31
38 19 23
IIIB.,
24 22 23
24 14 16 23 24 12 11
IIIc.,
IVA.,
24 22 21 24 18 22 23 23 20 3
41 37 36 41 17 31 39 34 22
IVB.,
24 23 20 24 5
IVC.,
17 13 11 17 2
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21
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23
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13
9 10
12
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5
18
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13 9 10 3
10
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37 23 8
22 33
22 20 11
16 20
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41 32 83 41 21 21 33
11 6 30 14
111 12 24
27
VB., VIA.,
26 24
VIB.,
28 28
VIIA.,
44 38
VIIB.,
23 21
VIIIA.,
28 26
VIIIB,
49 48
VIIIC.,
25 25
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23 24 25 23
16 20
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42
31
28
35 35 33
23
16
21 20 17
26 24 20 23 25
49 48 46 44 45
25 22 24 24 22
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587520 353|580|336 422 480|463 | 293 | 215 | 153 | 307 | 108 | 146 98 43 36 39 23
Examined in each Subject,.......(1894)| 418587 587 587 541 541 | 485 418 201 364 210 210 | 186 |110| 60 59 39
...(1893) | 470 625 625 625 573 573538470 280 392 | 190 | 173 | 134 93 51 42 49
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