I have not dealt with this matter until the Report of the Education Committee which has been forwarded to you under cover of my Despatch No. 177 of the 6th instant had been published. Section 16 of that Report expresses the opinion of the Committee on the subject of "mixed schools", an opinion shared by the Government, and one approved by you in general terms in Colonial Office Despatch No. 408 of the 6th December, 1901. I have also addressed you on this subject in my Despatch No. 178 of the 7th instant in connection with Dr. Wright's criticism of the Report.
4. As a result of the correspondence, the Central British School has now been reserved for Europeans of British Parentage; I attach a copy of the Report of the Manager and of the Speech made on the occasion. It is to this change from its original purpose, and to the compromise made by the Government with Mr. Ho Tung, that I have now the honour to request your sanction.
5. It will be convenient briefly to recapitulate the arguments which have influenced me in my decision. I was satisfied that the School would not have been a success as a mixed School. Chinese boys could not have attended it with profit to themselves, since English was designed to be the medium of instruction; while the proper education of the Chinese demands instruction mainly through the medium of the Chinese Language. The Report of the Education Committee, under the sub-head Anglo-Chinese Schools, Section 21-B, reads as follows: "Western Knowledge should be taught in Chinese until the students have acquired so good an understanding...