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Matriculation Examination.
If the provision of
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the Ordinance is to be observed, Chinese instructio
must be provided by the University, but only for
those who have attained Matriculation standard.
This standard should, however, be lowered in
respect of mathematics for those who propose to
take a continuous University course in Chinese.
6.
The School of Chinese Studies should
accordingly be closed, and the University should
provide courses and staff to produce "a type of
graduate who will combine a knowledge of Chinese
literature and Chinese history with an effective
knowledge of English language and literature."
This end is not attainable by changes within the
existing groups of subjects in the Arts Faculty.
They recommend, therefore, two new groups of English
and Chinese, the second being more intensive than the
first, capable of being taken in four years by a
Chinese student of ordinary ability, and in continuation
of the work that is being done in the highest classes
of the Anglo-Vernacular Schools. (As will be shown below, the Anglo-Vernacular Schools'/course has
Chinese
recently been changed.) As a first step towards
the new groups of studies they propose the appointment
of a Chinese scholer acquainted with modern methods
of study, with the salary and status of a University Reader. They propose also the appointment of one
Lecturer and one Translator, with an additional
Lecturer if the more intensive course is instituted,
and eventually provision for a post-graduate course.
7.
From the Memorandum of the Director of
Education, it will be seen that the Vernacular Middle
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