I have the honour to be,
My Lord.
Your Lordship's most obedient-
humble Servant.
Wan Rhy
{ Confidential
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Concerning Queen's College, Honghing.
C.0.
8th February, 1894.
8793 24 City retained in
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Dec 10 M47 34.
I. Education.
Some offici...
1. What the Queen's College
is and what it was meant to be are
still very different things; and the results obtained by this expensive Establishment come seriously
short
of what might be expected. These results, as shown in the Oxford Local Examinations and in
competition for
the Government Scholarship and other prizes, are not higher than
of other far less pretentious institutions in the Colony such as the Diocesan School, St Joseph's College or the Britannia English School; and it may be doubted whether the success in teaching English comes up to that of the earlier Schools of the Colony, at St. Paul's College, the Anglo-Chinese College, and the Central School under Dr Stewart.
2. The College must for years
to come be in great part an Elementary English School, though doubtless its ultimate aim should be ...