of Nouns, Adjections, Pronouns and Parts English Composition Narratives and Fables Properly Chinese Empire with Alap (from
memory of Eighteen Provinces. Arithmetic Vulgar fractions and Practice Translation English to Chinese, passage from.
Reading Book.
Translation Chinese to English Cho Not N°2
School Committee Book. European Ideas rendered into Chinese nearly thirty years ago.
D. Ho Kai's remarks.
I am much surprised at the remarks on overpressure, by Dr. Ho Kai. From his own experiences in Law and Medicine in England and elsewhere,
Dr Kai must be aware that the hard work entailed
by individual ambition is quite apart from the "question of systematic over pressure. As regards "Chinese boys too &c." Ho Kai cannot be unaware
that it is in accordance with Chinese ideas and customs for parents to keep their sons unceasingly at study from morning till night. In fact, I have often had complaints from Chinese parents that sufficient work is not provided to their sons, which would seem to indicate that the parents do not recognise the existence of the evil, so alarmingly depicted by Dr. Ho Kai and Dr. Eitel.
A further relief to the highest Class, where it seems to me is the only danger of overpressure, I made with the approval of H.E. the Governor the following order in February last.
"Boys
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Boys of the First Class will for the future be allowed to select any two but not more of the following subjects for the Annual Examination:
Latin
Book Keeping Mensuration Trigonometry
Chemistry
Drawing
in addition to the Class subjects:
English Dictation Translation E to C
Grammar Composition
Arithmetic
History
Shakespeare
Algebra Euclid
Prose Impositions
C & E
In paragraph 6 of the Report of the Inspector of Schools (Your Letter No. 6 Enclosure) the following sentence occurs.
"Some schools, specially the Victoria College, are great sinners in this respect, as those I have "known them to punish a naughty boy by "pouring 400 or even 500 lines of print
tonight."
Dr. Eitel is aware that by the Head Master's printed regulations no master is permitted to inflict
more than 300 lines
as a
very severe
penalty in serious cases.
I am surprised that Dr. Eitel should quote to the detriment of the reputation of Victoria College, what is merely an act of insubordination on the part of a junior master,
especially when, though invited to do so, he was unwilling to make a complaint in writing to myself,