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school would have oncall chance of getting

with his English. And that there is a difficulty in the case- of European boys advanced enough to jour the upper classes of the School may be gathered from a statement made not long ago by the present Headmaster of the School to Mr Waltman that there so many grown men in these Lasses that an English Schoolberg, of ordinary school boy disposition even in his beer, has

shance of competing

are

zro

with them and soon sinks to the bottom

the class and is discouraged. gave as in his

of

he

why there

There are

among

3.

opinion

the

This

razo

only 3 European boyo

the whole 400 of the School.

Another reason.

why it is unadvisable to allow English boy to

Chinese School of ench

attend a

- munkers with pupils of unch different ages is of a moral character. This may not strike all alike forcibly,

but

but I do not think

resided

time

among

can ignore

any

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one who has

the Chinese for any

it altogether, Our own

boys, nuhappily, are not immaculate, but parents here naturally shrink from exposing youths

their sons to

on the

contact with Chinese

the playground and other

moral

places when out of School. The restraint of the Chineze, it is well known

are

and

of a very light character practically,

such a large mumber of thered together

arring

Chinese

ого аме

да

ther in the

feel,

and probably

Central School we

most Europeans in Hongkong would

agree

with

would run a

that an

English boy

very great risk by

unrestricted accrciation with them.

Evropean boys, it is true, have

4.

been in

former years

educated in the

of theme

Cutral School, and souve

ane

occupying good positions in the Colony But at that time there were.

Comparatively few European boys in

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