rusational English.
Educationists from India
love no acquaintance with the difficulties that beset ellonjolian students.
Five years ago the
a strawber
headmaster of a school in Lancashire,
to me, happened to pass through Hrykay, saw fair samples good and bad of the work done
Althe prize distrib.
at our annual examinatimi.
work he hast seen.
uction subsequently for Wellarsh invited him to speak, when he delivered a most favorable opinion of the I dial not however allude to fis visit or his enconium in my Amual Report.
th) It is not necessary to inform the
to inform the fovernment that the total cost of Victoria College was over $30,000 a gear". The only pursons to whom this remark came be addressed are the ratefagers of trykny, and its purpose com only be in it's bearing paragraph of where it is supested to hand over Victoria follge to a Memicipal Board.
(2) Frernment Scholarships.
or
1884. Victoria Collye sent in the two only candidate
one of whom obtained it.
1886. A Victoria Collye boy obtained the higher total Amartes in compitition with a boy from another school, but the scholarship was not awarded. It can scarcely be said that " Victini follge failed". 1888. Victoria Collye did not send in a candidate. An
excellent boy whh had done well twee at the
Cambridge denir Local and was Ad of the beford Thiversit
was not allowed
to compete.
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his relations
(
1890. Victoria Collye entered a candidate, where
health broke down completely before the Exam. This explains. " 88 and go. Victoriael trok no part" . (K) Thouse already had the honour to write in full, at his Lordship's invortation, the reasons why boys after marked success of the Bolitios
our
come
Joue.
competitions (and 4th places out of 5) have resolved
is
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a matter that.
not to offer themselves for the future. (1) The Exford Rocal Examination
hardly forms part of a Report of HM Inspector Jibenta vide par. 16. where the ramtes of each school are
Cabrelatia in a manner that would cause some surprise, if the same plan were adopted in the Blue Book of Education published in Exeyland. D'Eitil does not mention, and is probably imaware of, the fact that several of the passes which swell the number opuccesses in the other schools Wthe Colony are due to bare pass in Religions tundedge which condoned failure in some other subject as Grammar Leopaphs. Ineed hardl, remark that Chinese brys do not offer Relijnsbundelje for examination.
that
Thave the honour toubmit that parapaph 12 must have a prejudicial effect on the opinion formed by May. Kony residents of the work done at Victoria College, — that the statements are misleading and inaccurate, - the custoon year afth year of institutay comparisons between schools is not conducive to the development J a steady thorough education, but appeals rather to emulation which will find vent on cramining a clever boys to the disregard of the hundreds of mere ordinary ability - that it is much to the disadvantage. of the fvernment Collye that it should be subject to these public strictures whatever are passed in the Report schools in the Colony
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while no critical rommastes
Thave the homom lobe
a fa
on the work of other
most checkint semant
ful Battison Wright. D.D. Oxon.
& Headellarhi Nitoriafollyze
Tything
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