7
1
480
and have had 1340 new
boys during that period, so that we can hardly be said to have made a sufficiently long exeperi-
scheme, though
we are
Zam
mintab test of any confident • progressing steadily.
"The following year
C.2.0. Letter No. 1014/17 Cord tinutsford " " expressed his sense of the credit due to you (the Head Mastic) and Assistant Masters for the good results shown by the school under your charge"
10 dept. 1891. Before leaving England Ireceived a letter from the Colonial office, Downing
St. in which these words occur
" Lord Knutsford desires me to say that "he has read your letter with interest and "that he entertains no doubt that you will "Continue to do everything possible to keep Victoria College in its proper place
"
as the
the Colony.
Model Secondary School of "Copies of the correspondence will be
sent to the Q. A.G."
Thus the secretary of
ently
State has consid
been in favour of extension, while the Inspector of Schools has in four years
Com.
"
completely changed front, and recommends the adoption of a retrograde policy in Connexion witte the education given at ities College.
8
Dr. bit about
(12) The remarks the dissatisfaction of the Chinese with
of
the curriculum, must be taken withe some degree of caution, when we read in his own report. Gazette 1888 p. 405 " anything beyond a partial mastery
the English language
was viewed by " the Chinese boys of the School as an irksome burden and as a waste of time, but "after a while little by little they "to appreciate Mathematics also and "Chemistry."
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If this has been, to Dr. Vitel's person- al knowledge and within his own we - prience, the course
course of
events in the
past; why may not we hope for a repetition of this miracle of transporence ation; and in three or four years find that they have come to appreciate'
that
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