70
A.
Admission, 1. Nationality.
1.
Though personally I view the provision of different schools for different nationalities as opposed to elsewhere universally approved Educational and Imperial policy, and as liable to produce racial ill-feeling, now happily unknown, I confine myself to the effect on Queen's College of the suggestion to restrict its advantages to boys in Chinese dress.
2. From 1867, or 15 years before my arrival, no boy has been excluded from Queen's College on account of his nationality and I stoutly maintain that this proper course should be continued; that parents should not be compelled to send their boys to a school, with which for any reason they are dissatisfied.
A certain number of English, Portuguese, Italian and German boys actually prefer the course of education at Queen's College, and I see no objection to their parents complying with this reasonable desire; any more than I raise objection to boys' leaving me for other schools.
3. The suggestion of the Committee is that Portuguese boys shall attend St. Joseph's College, (Para. 27), British boys Victoria British School or Kowloon British School (Para. 17), Chinese and Eurasians Queen's College, while schools will be, after (Para. 14) be provided for Mohammedans (a large community) Parsees, Jews etc. No alternative in case of dissatisfaction is provided or permitted.
4. In recommending the abolition of the non-Chinese classes (Para 36) that have existed for a dozen years, the chief purpose of the Education Committee is to enable one English master to be connected with the three sections of each class.
As