386
(3/c)
11
£80, while too little for England, is too much for Hong Kong. About £40 a month is more than enough to keep a boy, resident with his family in Hong-Kong. I have doubts as to the prosecution of higher studies in Hong Kong after the acquisition of the scholarship. The scholar might be attached to a lawyer, or to the Dock Co. or to the College of Medicine; but I do not think he should be allowed to continue at any school, unless in addition to one of the above engagements; otherwise I am apprehensive that his further course of study cannot be adequately tested as required by S.e.
(4.) Classes for the preparation of boys for Oxford and Cambridge Local Exams.
Queen's College has three such classes, total in March over 110.
What benefit are we to derive from the new scheme? At the present time with seven standards, I believe I am correct in stating that in more than one school of the Colony, two or three standards are already taught simultaneously. Surely each school will not be expected to provide a special master for the three or four boys, which at the utmost any school can hope to have, fulfilling the condition (8) of having passed Standard VII. If however, these boys are permitted to receive their higher education from a master, who has to teach Standards VI and VII at the same time, the scheme is manifestly open to abuse.
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