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-pressed by him on local educational problems are of considerable weight and must command respect. Apart from the principle, moreover, to which Dr. Wright objects, it is conceivable that the new scheme may be productive of serious injury to the prosperity and prestige of Queen's College, and for that reason I hesitate to recommend that Dr. Wright's views should be set aside without careful examination. If all European boys, on the one hand, are withdrawn from Queen's College, and all the children of the richer and better class Chinese, on the other hand, are eventually sent to a Chinese High School, there may be grounds for apprehension that Queen's College may fall very materially in the estimation of the Chinese public and that the numbers of its pupils may diminish to a serious extent as a consequence. It seems clear to me, however, that the present system is an unsatisfactory one and should be altered. I have every reason to believe that the statement made by Sir Henry Blake in paragraph 4 of his Despatch No. 343 of the 3rd September last, is in no way exaggerated, and that through no fault of the Headmaster or his Staff neither the English nor the Chinese boys of Queen's College are properly educated.
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If the Committee's recommendations are adopted I do not anticipate that it will be found possible to reduce the Staff of Masters, unless the numbers of the pupils come to be very largely reduced. The Committee recommends (Section 39-A) that the duties of the Staff should be so re-arranged as to enable every Division of every Class to receive instruction in English from an English Master for not less