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increased by the superaddition of the aim, which of late years (ever since this elementary school has been named a College) has been insisted upon with growing vigour viz: - to turn the School into a High School. The attempt to force the elementary English teaching of the School, before it is reformed and solidified, into the channel of the Oxford Local Examinations has proved, as an addition to the original incubus of Anglo-Chinese hybridism, a perfect curse to the School. The high pressure work necessary to obtain a semblance of results in this direction has of late converted the School into a cramming institution for the benefit of an infinitesimal minority of non-Chinese or Eurasian boys and to the ruin of both the elementary English and Chinese teaching of the Institution. A reform is absolutely necessary.
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Segregation of nationalities. For the purpose of the hot-house training required, under the peculiar difficulties of this School, for a fair show at the Oxford Local Examinations, the Headmaster introduced lately a measure which directly contravenes all the kit traditions and elementary principles of Colonial Government. Without the knowledge and consent of the Government he segregated in 1891 the non-Chinese boys in the upper division in one class (I, C) under a special English Master and in 1892 he further segregated the non-Chinese boys of the lower division into another separate class, (III, C), both having the exclusive services of English Masters. The Class III, C now works as a feeder to Class I, C and the College is virtually divided into ordinary and special classes, and all boys having