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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 1994,

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

"MAINTAINS ITS REPUTATION. "

plies for a leaving certificate after being here for a more måtter of a week or two-this has led to the introduction of a rule by which) no boy is now granted such a cer-; tificate unti} he has been in attendance for at least 6 months and has taken a half-yearly or an Queen's College this morning, annual examination. For some HE.. the Governor (Sir Reginald Stubbs) congratulated years, also, no leaving

ANNUAL PRIZE DAY,

Before distributing the prizes at

LOCAL AND OENERAL

Lighting up tinle to-day in it 6.07 p.m. and jo-morrow. (Sunday) at 6:08 p.m.

Alterations in the numbering of} hones in Nathan Road are notifie in-the current issue of the Gopen PICnt Gazette.

firing of

cer- In connection with the 'npipronel- the School on the maintenance of tificate has been issued without ing Chinese New Year the Govern its reputation and tradition and having, the photograph of the aptent Gazette publishes, the regula

tions concerning the said that it had recorded another plicant attached and other precau

crackers. successful year, He hoped the tionary measures Being taken. I students would return from the first realised that such precautions. New Year holidays ready to carry were necessary some years ago Mining Administration's mines for The total output of the Kailan on the good work. Among those when, after correspondence with the week ending January 12, present 'were Sir William the then Postal Commissioner in Brunyate, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Canton, it was discovered that amented to 101,800 bous, and the Messrs. A. G. M. Fletcher, U certain unprincipled holders of the sales during the period to 81,054 Runjabn, E. Ralphs and Teesdale older certificates were turning Mackintosh.

them to account by letting them Mr. B. Thuner, the Headmaster, out on hire to applicants for posi“ In his report said the school year tions in the Chinese postal upder review was a shorter one department and other places than usual, extending from January and So enabling them 10 1 to November 30 and so consist pose as old Queen's boys." ing of only eleven calendar "In Class 2, consisting of four months. I had been arranged sections-two Science and two that in future the school years Commercial-we had in November sball begin on December I and a total of ga boys, all of whom sat tomminate at the end of November for the Junior Local Examination This re-arrangement was consider with results as followsOn the ed advisable so that their class Science side, section “A” 22 boys: examinations might as far as sat and all passed, while in section possible synchronise with the "B" with 26 boys, to passed and University Matriculation and Local 16 failed. On the Commercial Examinations, · and promotions side, section "A," 23 sat and 20. and admissions be made impassed, while in section "B" of the mediately afterwards sọ AA to 18 who sat only a succeeded in enable them to settle down with passing out waste of time to the following -year's work,

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These results, except in Com- mercial 2B, where we had hoped The total number of students in that at any rate 6 boys might get

almost exactly. I attendance during the year ending through,--were November 30, 1923, was 839, being what we had anticipated. just 4 more than in the previous "I say almost" year. Of this total, all, with the Tanner, "because there were the will those desirous of attending, kind | Goods bave left the Godowns, and all Co., Líd, at consignees' risk, whence exception of 12 boys, were en usual inevitable shocks and rolled at the beginning of the year The District Schools, as usual, supplied the great majority of boys enrolled, after competitive ex- amination, in the Upper School, where they admitted no fewer than 180 boys from these schools to the various sections of Class 3 The number of school days during 1923 was 206 as compared with 226 in 1922. The average daily atten- dance throughout the year was 678, being an increase of 33 over or that of the previous year,

The discipline, control, and general tone of the school had been maintained at the same high level of excellence at which they,always ained, continued Mr. Tanner, and this notwithstanding the marked reduction in the average age of their boys brought about by the „strict enforcement of an age limit

for each class.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.

published, and in one instance we c/o MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LTD, rent. verged on absolute pathos nor to say tragedy. This was the case of a Chinese youth of 15, the top boy of his section (Science 2B) and quite a promising youngster, who after obtaining particularly high || marks for Mathematics and Chemis ry, Geography B., and actually PROVIDED that sufficient STUD ENTS are forthcoming, a NEW being awarded a "distinction" in Physics failed frona nervousness CLASE for BF GINNERS will be corn hitherto unexplained menced directly. after China New reason to do himself in English Year.

some

and so was parked down a failure." INTENDING STUDENTS are in

"Altogether 26 distinctions were vited to notify the undersigned, scored by our Junior Local Candi-

D. K. BLAIR. dates, one boy, Chang Iv-man, the-

Secretary. top boy on the Science side, obtaining no less than 5.

"And here let me say how pleased I am that a somewhat higher standard of marking the Junior Local papers has at last The health of the school was, on heen put into operation by the the whole, better than usual. University, D November they were all vaccinati

"Dealing finally with Class I ed. To the medical staff of the to which no Bay is promoted_untik Alice Memorial Hospital Mr. he has obtained a Jucior Local Tanner offered thanks for their Certificate In June 1923 three prompt attention to minor casual- Matriculation candidates, who had ties and for their kindness in re- failed in November 1922, sat again porting upon and prescribing for and of these 2 passed, incidentally boys suffering from slight silments, the third one, with commendable In their class-roons and labor-determination, sat a third time in atories the year had been marked November 1933 and has at long by a cheerful atmosphere of steady last found haven at the University. work and effort, and although: "In November the 13 boys it examination results in several attendance on the Science (side instances leave much to be desiredi] were all presented for Matriculă. the Headmaster said he felt that tion and of these 13-passed and 2 the work itself may justly be failed. On the Commercial side, described as highly satisfactory of the entire class of 21 boys who In the recent November examinat sat, 4 succeeded in matriculating jons, dealing with the Lower while were awarded a Senior School, consisting of classes 8 to 4. Local pass and the rest failed they examined 276 boys and of Of the 17 boys who matriculated, These 228 qualified for promotion. 4 obtained distinctions while The pass standard from Class 4 Ching Hing-chow and Chan here and at the District Schools Yik-king were awarded honours. into our Upper School was last the former, our Head Prefect and year raised from 50 to 60 per cent. Top Boy of the School was also Science and Commerce. the winner of the President of Mr. Tanner continued "As all China Scholarship. those interested in the work and Here I may be permitted to welfare of Queen's are already remark in passing that ever since aware, our upper. school classes our boys have competed for this fall into two divisions known re-scholarship we have succeeded in spectively as the "Full" course or capturing it, except in 1921 when I Science side, and the Commercial was at Home on leave and when side.

owing to some misunderstanding

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In Class 3, the junior class of our boys sat for the June examinat the Upper School and consisting ions (when no scholarships are of & sections, we started the year awarded) and so left a clear field with 285 boys of whem 165 were for other oqmpetitors enrolled on the Commercial side November examinations, and 120 elected to take the Science"It is, after all, only reasonable course. By November, this num to expect that we should more or ber had dwindled to 200 of less.

corner" this particulas whom 198 completed the Scholarship 'since by recruiting examination and 148 qualified for our Séniors as we do not only -promotion to Class 2. Arithmetic from our own Lower School but and English Composition haye from the Government District. now been made, in addition, of Schools as well we usually get the course, to Chinese, compulsory pick, in brains at any rate, of those subjects in Class 3 and failure in boys who are subjects of the these will in future preclude a boy Republic and so entitled to com - from promotion,” pa

pete." "Dwelling for a moment upon "For the King Edward VH. the perennial falling off in numbers Scholarship confined to those who that takes place in this class I are British subjects-me very rarely should like to explain that quite have a boy who is entitled to com a number of boys regularly seek pete" added the Headmaster. "We admission here for the sdle Have however, on two occasions, purpose of enabling them to managed to carry one off in ad describe themselves as Queen's fifon to the President's Scholar College boys Occasionally such ship.”.

boy presents himself and, aps!

(Continued on page 6.)

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