been
this has dropped at my suggestion, and they have been supplanted by boys born in the Colony. The Government will give
ment will give it up. I have always
I gained my
found that in the long run
point by waiting.
Laundries
Latrine
W. May, Lecouch Mastic. Latrines are
twelve
might
almost
say sweet:
Playground.
clear
M. Machell - Utterly impossible for any man to supervise playground. They are not engaged for this work.
Choristics of Chinese boys.
I am
with much that Dr Eitel said in his address on this topic. I find myself in full accord
I dealt with the same subject 1887. Preface to Head Master's Rules 1890, Gazette p. 426 par. 7, 8. I must however beg leave to take exception to the following statements.
"A Chinese boy never loves not
even his own parents. The emotion is unintelligible to them" This is contrary to the experience of most observers and was naturally painful to his Chinese hearers.
"Chinese boys have no moral
Dr Eitel in
the old days of
my
religious feeling"
Class room. presence outside the by the Central School said to General Cameron OAG "Taking them class by class Chinese are equal if
superior, in morality to corresponding European classes of society" General Cameron laughed him to scorn but turned to Dr Stewart
who
who corroborated Dr Eitel's statement; whereupon the general remarked "Nobody else will agree with you
Chinese have no
"
imagination
or
fancy, if you say 'ma it is the character
ty that is suggested to them not the animal the horse "This is absolute nonsense, how about Chinese who cannot read!
(Addressing Chinese Assistants) If you read Tennyson and Shakespeare you will find that Confucius and Mencius are not the greatest luminaries of the world" This is a gratuitous insult to respectable Chinese. Moreover there is no parallel - Imagine any professor saying "If you read Virgil and
Horace
you will find that Plato and Aristotle are not the greatest luminaries
of
the world.
To the best of my remembrance the above is the sum and substance of the remarks made at the
conference held in Victoria College on Thursday 3rd Aug. 1893
(Ed) Alfred J. May.
(Second master)
Tuesday 8th Aug. 93.
Geet Watam Night Victoria College.
Sept 1893