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to Victoria College studying
Chenieve and
a
Auglish thorough kamning
ud se
· getting. ai dementary
mathematics, but Leave it, after
seven or eight years study, unable to speak, or understand spoken,
English with
facility.
Governor
air John Pope Hemissy endeavoured,
Levi 1878,
to
to b
bring
about a reformy,
in this respect also, be mi
Dove
others, and encceeded so far as
To get.
La Committee representing the community to declare that the provimary object to be borne inn view by the Government should be
the
beaching of Rnglish"," but the measure lacked the nearly support of the Secretary of State, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, and consequently had no practical effect, (Despatch 4:42 of 14th May 1898).
What has perhaps
caused the misunderstanding,
acwe referred to, may
Rave Seen
my alluding to the offer which
the Indian Gr.
cade
to hand over any of its secondary Departmental schools or colle
colle goe
to native educationists. If this quotation was read with me
Mental
uption that the- application of this principle to
đang
4 Kong
would cause a serious
charge as regards existing wish-
سم
petions, it would be sufficient so
the wriqui of
account
for
der spandir
bandiing.
BB A
the
av m
atter of fact there is no cause
for such
4.
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assumption.
There is, strictly speaking,
no Departmental secondary school
Hongkong school, the Victoria College, which teaches the A. B.C in its lowest class, kaches also, in its highest class, districtly secondary subjects such
at all. But are such
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