CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]

Enclosure

I have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 55.

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The following Report of the Hongkong Government Scholarship Examination, 1892, together with the Summary of Results, as required by Rule 20 of the Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1893.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

REPORT OF THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION, 1892.

To the Secretary of the LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND LECTURES SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

SIR—We beg leave to submit to you our report on the above-named examination, which we have recently conducted at your direction.

In the first place, we present a table of the marks obtained by the five selected candidates.

Index Number. NAME. ENGLISH SUBJECTS OTHER SUBJECTS Grand Total. Grammar. History. Literature. Total. Geography. Mensuration. Arithmetic. Algebra. Total. 1 Jamsedjee Pestonjee 78 69 76 87 310 86 96 778 2 Leung Kwong-hin 138 94 104 414 65 3 Thomas Cock 124 97 352 59 81 401 695 4 G. A. Ivanovich 81 167 72 111 431 76 93 100 95 458 889 5 A. C. Gomes 63 110 42 36 261 36 58 121 502 Full Marks 100 200 130 130 600 100 100 100 100 500 1100

On the above table, we may remark that candidates 1, 4, and 3 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 400 marks in the English subjects; the same candidates and also No. 2 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 300 marks in the other subjects. We desire to commend in general the papers of the three candidates IVANOVICH, COCK, and PESTONJEE, who have qualified themselves for election in both parts of the examination, and also of LEUNG KWONG-HIN. The competition for the scholarship between IVANOVICH and Cock was very close. We beg leave to recommend IVANOVICH to the Colonial Government for election to the scholarship, as has already been announced to the Colonial Secretary by telegraph.

English Subjects—In Grammar, the answers to the whole paper were in general excellent. The Essays of the three most successful candidates were in varying degrees meritorious in expression, style, and thought. In History, the questions which elicited the best answers were those on the period from the Norman Conquest to the Tudors, and in the special period (the reign of Victoria) those on our Colonial Empire and foreign policy. In the History of Literature, the work on the earlier literature was superior to that on the later. The selected play of Shakespeare had been carefully studied.

Other Subjects.—In Geography, the best answers were on the United Kingdom and Asia. The first two papers deserve commendation. In most of the papers, however, traces of the study of Trendell's Colonial Year-Book were not very prominent. The mathematical work of all the candidates was good and in two cases extremely good. All did well in Algebra and Euclid, the work being intelligent and careful. In the arithmetical subjects, there was some lack of accuracy in the work of three candidates. Taken as a whole, the results of the second part of the examination are extremely satisfactory.

We have the honour to remain,

Sir,

Your obedient Servants,

J. H. FLATHER, M.A., of Emmanuel College.

C. M. JESSOP, M.A., Fellow of Clare College.

31st December, 1892.

Correct,

J. N. KEYNES, Secretary to the Syndicate.

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