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report, extracted from the local Press, Enclosure
of the proceedings at the annual distribution of Prizes on the 22nd instant
at the Central School (or Victoria College), the Chief Educational Institution supported by the
Government of Hongkong; and where, with very few exceptions, all the four hundred (400)
Chinese students are.
The speech of the Head Master (Mr Bateson Wright, M.A., Oxon), gives some interesting details
concerning the present condition of the Central School.
3.
I had consulted with persons thoroughly conversant with Chinese feelings and habits of
thought as to the precise character of the address which would be most effective and practically useful. It
will be seen that in my speech on this occasion I referred, among other topics, to the teaching of Confucius, the Aristotle of China.
4.
In the Central School, and in the other chief Government Schools of Hongkong, the main object...