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matter until the Report of the Education Committee which has

been forwarded to you under cover of my Despatch No. 177 of

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the 6th.instant had been published. Section 16 of that Report

expresses the opinion of the Committee on the subject of *mixed

304 schools", an opinion shared by the Government, and one approved

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by you in general terms in Colonial Office Despatch No. 408

of the 6th. December, 1901. I have also addressed you on this

subject in my Despatch No. 178 of the 7th.instant in connec-

tion with Dr. Wright's criticism of the Report.

4.

As a result of the correspondence, the

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child

School has now been reserved for European British Parentage;

I attach and as such it was opened by me on the 19th.ultimo

de couy of the Romanager Leport of the Sprecker ante on art

occasion. It is to this change from its original purpose, and

to the compromise made by the Goverment with Mr. Ho Tung,

that I have now the honour to request your sanction.

5.

It will be convenient briefly to recapita-

late the arguments which have influenced me in my decision.

I

was satisfied that the School would not have been a success

as a mixed School. Chinese boys could not have attended it

with profit to themselves, since English was designed to be

the medium of instruction; while the proper education of the

Chinese demands instruction mainly through the medium of the

Chinese Language. The Report of the Education Committee,

under the sub-head Anglo-Chinese Schools, Section 21-B, reads

as follows.- "Western Knowledge.

should be taught in

Chinese until the students have acquired so good an understand-

-ing