CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4] — Page 427

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12.

and they

are convinced of their fairness. (vec opecial remarks, pp. 18, 19). We do not think the Head Master's remark

about the East. Auglianisme "shes" at all pertinent; reason he gives for he frequency of the

nor do we think that the

mistake is correct. In our

do much more

opinion it likely to be the stablish

use of the test book, which gives (p.44)

Pres.

Chore

Bret

8. Just

(Shers) t Showr Showed

* A provincial form, found also in Spenser.

The foot note seas to have excoped boys,

teachers and Head Master.

(b ! Failure to do the problems introduced into the Arithmetic of VI and I'll did not proeart boys getting

a

pass in this

subject.

et. What the stead

terms

Moster calls "Military

were fully explained by Chinese Masters to the class in whose paper they recurred. What the introduction of problems into Ill did elicit was the fact that the boys

9.

13.

10

13.

did not

generally know the difference between odd and even numbers. 425

(me) The Head Master refers to a passage set for translation into English being "unintelligible without its con = text. The paper referred to was for

of

ފ

course of study;

special prize and was not one those set on the regular and, on the stead Masters

suggest. ions, a passage of

more than ordinary

our

by

difficulty was selected. The chief - faul's in the kanslations made. the boys were, we think, due to e-

ignos rance not so much of the contest as

#

of

the

itself.

meanings of words in the price

(n) the thead Master's table of

the number of boy who oblained more "than 60 marks in I a compared with other classes, and likewise his second

table of the numbers of boys who ob.

tained one.

bass

half and one Kurd of the

total number of possible marks, is not

did

a

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