it coincides in a remarkably apparent manner with the letter of the Govern- ing Body received a
few months ago, questions as the inability of on such questions. Chinese Masters to teach English sub - jects; the desirability of abandoning
the study of Euclid; the
segregation of Non - Chinese boys, etc., On all these I beg to refer you to previous correspondence.
porints
2.
The chief points in the Exam. ination to which I beg to draw attention
ale :-
which
(1) The undue bugth of the propers, for exceeding previous years, for insufficient time was allowed.
(2) The want, in several instances,
of selection of plain, ample English, in the questions.
(3) The
giving of alternative quest. ions, which require careful perusal, before choice is made, and therefore a waste of trine is incurred.
(4)
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(4) The refusal to permit Masters of Lower Classes to give Dictation to
permitted in England
their own lusses us
It is well known in England that Examiners for the first year two adopt an intolerably high standard,
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or
fill experience teaches them what may reasonably expected from the
young. In their Report the Exaunivers of Trans College appear way exception to the above rule. It is almost a pity that key abstained from giving
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minute details, as it would have led. to a closer peruval of their our statis. ties. The slaughter of the innocents, there uniformly deficted, is a Reductio ad Absurdum of the standard
the standard applied The result of the Rexamination is a complexe finnes. There are no points. of comparison with the Fables of pro- The Upper School will,
years.
next term, shrink, and with it the Revenue, for I am
distinctly unstruckd
to
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