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have already spent 1 to 5 years in the study of English. These boys are really anxious to enjoy the benefits of English education in this College, as their grief at refusal of renewed applications testifies,
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There is further the sordid consideration of annual loss to the Revenue of about $5,000 from fees of vacant seats, which may be estimated at over $400 per mensem, 200 seats at $2.
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Again my experience has taught me that it is an overcrowded institution that is attractive to the Chinese. If a college is half, or three quarters full, discipline suffers from the independence of parents, who think the presence of their sons a personal favour.
13. My recommendation is, to admit applicants to all vacancies, as heretofore, but provide proper native Chinese instruction, in addition to English school for all boys in the lower and Preparatory Schools as formerly up to 1895. I believe His Excellency Sir Henry Blake advocates the restoration of the Native School in connexion with this College. No expense, in addition to the recommendations of the Committee, will be entailed, as I propose on the suggestion of the Second Master to employ the six (instead of nine) Native Stylists 3½ hours daily in Native School as well as 1½ hour daily in English school. The few boys, not half a dozen, admitted to the Upper School, do not require consideration.
14. I found on my arrival in 1882, no Entrance Examination Chinese or English. Dr. Stewart's practice, as assured me by the then Second Master (Mr. H. Falconer) was to admit
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