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tion to individual scholars and I would venture to suggest to my masters the advisability of pursuing the course followed by myself during the eight years in which I discharged the duties of a prac- tical teacher in the Central School. I found excellent results obtained through dividing a class roughly into quarters, and de- voting my main attention to each of these quarters in different subjects on different days with occasional demonstrations on the blackboard to the whole class. More inspection of slates and less work on the blackboard appears to me the cure for weakness in Grammar and Mathematical subjects. Translations from and into Chinese were well done, the former being better than the latter. As usual, an unseen piece of Chinese formed the fifth question in every paper. In the Upper School I made selec- tions from recent issues of the local native press, and I was much pleased with the rendering into English, especially in the senior section of the First class. As a novelty this year I also inserted an unseen piece of English in every class to be turned into Chinese, but this was not equally well done. The papers written in Chinese were first assessed by the Vernacular masters on the matter of style and correctness in writing characters; they were then marked for translation by Messrs. No and TSANG, the Senior Chinese Assistants. In view of the interest evinced by the boys throughout the college in this important branch of education, I much regret that (by 8753/03 C.S.O.) instruction in both Trans- lations has been prohibited in the Lower and Preparatory Schools, representing about 700 boys.
MATHEMATICAL SUBJECTS.
Arithmetic is again weak throughout the Collge. Algebra was a suc
cessful subject in the Upper School. On the representation of Mr. GRANT that the test in Class I was too severe, I allowed a pro rata increment of 25% to the Senior Section, and 50 % to the Junior; but in justice to myself, I must report that, as is the case with all other examination papers, no one question set failed to elicit a correct answer from one or more boys. Euclid was intelligently done in Classes I, II, and by a few boys in Class III where it is a new and difficult subject. A better grasp of prin- ciples might be exhibited in Mensuration, though several boys deserve high praise. A fair proportion of boys in Classes I and II did well in Bookkeeping. As it is usual for a non-Chinese boy to excel in these subjects, it is only just to CARI. BUNJE to place on record that he obtained no less than 86 % marks in both Eudid and Bookkeeping.
MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.
The General Intelligence paper was better worked than in my p evious experience; the answers were full of interest, and showed acquant- ance with a wide field of information. Natural Science and Physiology were well done by the Senior Class non-Chinese boys, who offer these subject instead of Translation. Freehand and Model Drawing and Shorthand have been taught by Mr TANNER with gicat success as optional subjects.
13. The Scholarships were awarded as under
Senior Morrison,..
Junior Morrison,..
Stewart,
Senior Belilios,
Junior Belilios,
JA. TSE TSOK KAL
A. YUNG Yam Mux.
d.
Họ Yay SIE.
IA. Kó Pó SHAM. III. M. YAMASAKI.
The Chinese community las by subscription founded a Blake" scholarship in honour of His Excellency the recent Governor. The annual valne will be $150, and the first award will be made in 1905 after competition in Translations and English Composition To the list of donors of prizes published in the report for 1992 should be added the names of Messrs. WAN TSUNG-IU and LEUNG LAN-FAN both former