plans of the New Central School, or
Victoria College, prepared,
together
Enclosures
1 and 2
(Enclosure 1, 3 drawings, sent separately)
with the accompanying explanatory
memorandum.
Mr. Price, the
Surveyor-General and Director
of Public Works.
In my previous
despatch referred to above, I
mentioned that, of the total
number of Chinese Pupils in the
Central School (about four hundred and fifty) there are few young boys, while more than
one third
of the whole are older
than 18; many being older
than the majority of the students at Oxford and Cambridge; and about
one tenth are between the
ages
of 21
and 26; many of this latter class being married men with families. I added that, looking to the mature age of the majority of the students of the principal educational institution in this Colony, and to other circumstances, the name
of "School" would be obviously inappropriate to the new building, and that it
should be styled the "Queen's College", the "Royal College", or "Victoria
College"