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"they were not the persons best qualified", supplemented by the
confident assurance that they have at length discovered work
for which they are qualified. In plain English, this paragraph
states that, incompetent to examine the work done by boys the
jess the Examiners are competent to examine the work done by
Masters of experience and training - the greater. The analogy,
between the Examiners and an Inspecting Field Officer, is
rather unhappy; as there could be no basis of comparison, un-
less the Field Officer had no previous Kilitary experience, and
had not passed through various subaltern grades.
5.
I feel justified in calling the Report
hostile, because it gives incomplete or inaccurate information
on several matters; and because when the verdict of the exami-
cers on any subject is good, the impression is entirely ob-
scured by lengthy attacks on mincr details.
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6.
Organisation of the thousand boys of the
College is "very good", but the effect of this is marred and
the sentence rendered meaningless by a proleptic reference to
conditions that will exist in 1904, "We say this however....
7.
Promotions. It is not true that boys (e.g.)P
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in V/A are promoted en bloc to IV/A. The best boys in V/A.B.C. are promoted and they are carefully selected by taking some total of marks (say 650 out of 1,000). No boys that fail are promoted, but promotion cannot be refused to any boy that pass- es. These rules as to promotion obtain in all schools and are not peculiar to Queen's College. Boys are not promoted "who do not deserve promotion", but after working to gain promotion some boys relax their efforts and lose their places in the new
class.
8.
Geography and History. The syllabus is Class VI: Definitions Hongkong.
V: The World (Chief features)
IV: Chinese Empire.
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Class Ill