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Society - and that I.R. Imison Cope, the son of the Founding, shall in case be a member of such Committee.
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Legge, will continue to sustain in it the office of Principal, and it is proposed that he be joined, as soon as possible, by a Colleague from England, who will undertake the various departments of natural science.
To ensure a permanent supply of Chinese students, it is proposed to establish a preparatory school in immediate connexion with the College, the scholars of which shall be eligible students, when they have obtained a certain amount of proficiency in the English and Chinese languages.
Wherever schools are established at the different Ports to the Southward by the Missionaries of the London Missionary Society, these will likewise serve as
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Preparatory Schools from to the College; and converts to Christianity from the Chinese, of talents adapted to render among them useful in spreading true and divine knowledge among their countrymen, will always be transferred to it, to receive a Theological training, principally through the medium of their own language.
Boys and young men possessed of the requisite attainments will be readily admitted from other schools, or on the recommendation of private individuals. It is not intended to confine the advantages of the Institution to the Chinese. Gentlemen from Europe, and other parts of the world, who are anxious to prosecute the study of the Chinese language will be provided with apartments in it, on their submitting to the laws