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school would have oncall chance of getting
with his English. And that there is a difficulty in the case- of European boys advanced enough to jour the upper classes of the School may be gathered from a statement made not long ago by the present Headmaster of the School to Mr Waltman that there so many grown men in these Lasses that an English Schoolberg, of ordinary school boy disposition even in his beer, has
shance of competing
are
zro
with them and soon sinks to the bottom
the class and is discouraged. gave as in his
of
he
why there
There are
among
3.
opinion
the
This
razo
only 3 European boyo
the whole 400 of the School.
Another reason.
why it is unadvisable to allow English boy to
Chinese School of ench
attend a
- munkers with pupils of unch different ages is of a moral character. This may not strike all alike forcibly,
but
but I do not think
resided
time
among
can ignore
any
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one who has
the Chinese for any
it altogether, Our own
boys, nuhappily, are not immaculate, but parents here naturally shrink from exposing youths
their sons to
on the
contact with Chinese
the playground and other
moral
places when out of School. The restraint of the Chineze, it is well known
are
and
of a very light character practically,
such a large mumber of thered together
arring
Chinese
ого аме
да
ther in the
feel,
and probably
Central School we
most Europeans in Hongkong would
agree
with
would run a
that an
English boy
very great risk by
unrestricted accrciation with them.
Evropean boys, it is true, have
4.
been in
former years
educated in the
of theme
Cutral School, and souve
ane
occupying good positions in the Colony But at that time there were.
Comparatively few European boys in
HongRorig