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Ten students entered
Chinese work shown up at this examination.
for the examination and five passed. The Chinese work shown up
by the successful candidates at this examination is quite reasoil-
ably good and indeed 1r. Wells, who examined this year not only
in this School Final Examination but also in the latriculation
and Senior Local Examination, holds that the Chinese work shown
up by the worst student who failed at this School Final Examination
is better than the Chinese work shown up by the best candidate at
the latriculation Examination. I have consulted fr. Wells, also
Drs. Lai and Au and lir. Lam Tung all of whom took part in the
School Final Examination. They all hold that each of the five
candidates who were declared to be successful at the School Final
Oxamination are quite capable of following with advantage an in-
tensive course of Chinese at the University.
A copy of Ir. Wells'
report on the Chinese work shown up at the School Final Examination
is attached.
It seems to me that what is called for at the present
juncture is to establish a School of Chinese which shall, to start
with at any rate, teach a course of Chinese and English to those
who are capable of passing an admission test of the same standard
and on the same lines as the recently conducted Government Verna-
cular Middle School Final Examination. Such a course should not,
to begin with at any rate, load to a degree but to a special
diploma of the Chinese School.
8. If this be agrood to, then it follows that we require
to raise money at once for (1) a Chinese School as suggested above
and (2) such staff as will enable the University to continue to
include Chinese as a degroo subject in the Arts Faculty curriculum.
It would, I consider, bc fatal for the University, at the present
juncture, while providing for a staff to teach Chincse for the
purposes of a University diploma, to discontinuc its provision
for instruction in Chinesc as a subjcct for the Arts Faculty
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