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various people, including that of
Commodore, have been
A recent
ced in this man-
defaced
new, I fail therfore to bee how such epigrams can be taken as a sober indication
of truc
Chinese opinion. I think, however, it only just on behalf of my staff to demand! that Dr. Eitel should be required to provide
these epigrams, for if they copies of " libellous" he is technically quilty, I should imagine, of ultering
a libel in alluding to
are
them in a Public Gazette, if he is merely relying
on
hearsay.
(P) "I had a "class of big thiness boys before me" to. As described, any one (as in fact.
some already have done) would ouppose the class to be high up On the contrary
one of
in the
College
it was the bottoms class but
the College,
VIII B. The allusion to
"the stiff problems in Arithmetic" worked
no
2
1
before dr. bited by this class is simple im-Zu agination,
as Numeration, Notation, dim-
phe Addition and bubtraction, are not onbjects "on whide" stiff problems can
be set.
"
(8)
nothe
(8) That the same boys could writes stilted Chinese Prose Essays " is also an utter-
28boys
by unfounded assertion. Of the 28 in class VIII B last December,
were son Chinese
I were in Chinese Class t
2 boys
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11
"
"
Y
and on the testimony of their own teachers, supported by the fact that these are the lowest Chinese classes, these boys all were incapable of writing Chinese Broays.
one and
one and
(9) write it off in Chinese, they all could not do it! I have madiscariyul.
Chinese School,
quiries of the four teachers
and they
7
in
asserts that nothinese boy is taught
large
anything about la
numbers, myriads,
lakles, millions &c. except so far.
as the
explanation of the Whinens word for such is
introduced
concerned in reading & Clamic . Dr Bitib rimody has only quite recently Arithematic in the Chinese language into the Government Chinese Schools; he must there-