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"they were not the persons best qualified", supplemented by the

confident assurance that they have at length discovered work

for which they are qualified. In plain English, this paragraph

states that, incompetent to examine the work done by boys the

jess the Examiners are competent to examine the work done by

Masters of experience and training - the greater. The analogy,

between the Examiners and an Inspecting Field Officer, is

rather unhappy; as there could be no basis of comparison, un-

less the Field Officer had no previous Kilitary experience, and

had not passed through various subaltern grades.

5.

I feel justified in calling the Report

hostile, because it gives incomplete or inaccurate information

on several matters; and because when the verdict of the exami-

cers on any subject is good, the impression is entirely ob-

scured by lengthy attacks on mincr details.

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6.

Organisation of the thousand boys of the

College is "very good", but the effect of this is marred and

the sentence rendered meaningless by a proleptic reference to

conditions that will exist in 1904, "We say this however....

7.

Promotions. It is not true that boys (e.g.)P

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in V/A are promoted en bloc to IV/A. The best boys in V/A.B.C. are promoted and they are carefully selected by taking some total of marks (say 650 out of 1,000). No boys that fail are promoted, but promotion cannot be refused to any boy that pass- es. These rules as to promotion obtain in all schools and are not peculiar to Queen's College. Boys are not promoted "who do not deserve promotion", but after working to gain promotion some boys relax their efforts and lose their places in the new

class.

8.

Geography and History. The syllabus is Class VI: Definitions Hongkong.

V: The World (Chief features)

IV: Chinese Empire.

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Class Ill