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Committee overlooks the fact that 25 non-Chinese boys in these classes have paid an aggregate of $227.50 as Entrance Fees for the Oxford Local Examinations in July next, which sum must in equity be refunded by the Government if these boys are compelled to leave before the expiration of the present term (5th August).
7. I would beg to recommend that the non-Chinese classes be permitted to continue, until (if ever) they become extinct in a natural course, by changes effected elsewhere; i.e. when I report at the beginning of any school year, that less than 50 boys are attending these classes, there being at present 56.
A. Admission,
8.
2. Entrance Examination. 317 boys out of nearly 500 applicants have been admitted since 5th March last. Of these I doubt that 100 could pass even the test suggested by the Committee (Para.384), viz: fair Chinese composition of a narrative, and ability to read a news column of a native paper.
The difficulty of the time employed in the careful examination, by competent native scholars, of this enormous number of annual applicants for admission, is, it is true somewhat obviated by the recommendation of the appointment of Composition Masters (Para. 75), better perhaps called Native Stylists.
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10. It is however in my opinion a serious question whether the Government is justified in increasing from 200 to 400 the number of rejected applicants, of whom several have...
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Committee overlooks the fact that 25 non-Chinese boys in
these classes have paid an aggregate of $227.50 as Entrance
Fees for the Oxford Local Examinations in July next, which
sum must in equity be refunded by the Government if these
boys are compelled to leave before the expiration of the
present term (5th August).
7. I would beg to recommend that the non-Chinese
classes be permitted to continue, until (if ever) they become
extinct in a natural course, by changes effected elsewhere;
i.e.when I report at the beginning of any school year, that
less than 50 boys are attending these classes, there being at
present 56.
A. Admission,
8.
2. Entrance Examination.
317 boys out of nealy 500 applicants have
been admitted since 5th March last. Of these I doubt that
100 could pass even the test suggested by the Committee
(Para.384), viz: fair Chinese composition of a narrative,
and ability to read a news column of a native paper.
The difficulty of the time employed in the
careful examination, by competent native scholars, of this
enormous number of annual applicants for admission, is, it
is true somewhat obviated by the recommendation of the
appointment of Composition Masters (Para, 75), better perhaps
called Native Stylists.
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10. It is however in my opinion a serious quee-
tion whether the Government is justified in increasing from
200 to 400 the number of rejected applicants, of whom several
bave
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