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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 2, 1906. 235
6. It gives me pleasure to find myself able to report a considerable improvment in the following important English subjects-Composition, Geography, History, Dictation, Reading, Conversation and Translations from and into Chinese. The Composition exercises, especially in all sections of Class IV are the best I ever remember correcting. Map-drawing seems to have been neglected in all sections of Classes II and III, but Geography throughout the College was excellently taught, and the few searching questions outside the text-books were well answered, Mathematics with the exception of Algebra continue poor. As there are several new subjects requiring more detailed report, I cannot deal further with the usual subjects of instruction, beyond referring to a very interesting report made by the Second Master, Mr A. J. MAY, after correcting the Translation papers from English into Chinese. He con-iders the unseen piece well attempted in all five classes, but awards the palm of excellence to Class II, with Class I next. The latter class was puzzled with the expression "nations are all arming to the teeth", and misled by the occurrence of the word teeth employed as an equivalent a classical phrase "the lips having been lost the teeth grow cold", e., it will be our turn next.
7. In congratulating the Masters on a successful issue, I should be failing in my duty, if I did not draw attention to the excellent manner in which the Masters of III C, IV C, V C, and VIC have worked up backward boys so that their results compare favourably with those of the A sections of the same classes. Of 72 boys in Class II B & C last March only 25-and these naturally not the best-remained to be examined in II B. The Master of this section has wrought wonders with very indifferent material. What he can do with apt pupils is exemplified in II A where he took Mensuration and both Translations.
8. Of the five Pupil Teachers examined twelve months ago, two are now Ex Pupil Teachers and the other three have left. The Normal Master, Mr. B. TANNER, in spite of raw material in his staff, has inaintained the excellent reputation of the Preparatory School. Geography was examined as a separate subject in Class VII with great success.
9. Though there is as yet no perceptible improvement in the attainments of Chinese boys in their own language on admission to this College, the larger proportion of boys examined in the top standard-Class V-109 instead of 57, is evidence of good steady work done by the five Masters. Only one boy in English Class IV is debarred from promotion to the Upper School through failing to pass in Vernacular Class II, a disqualification required by the Governing Body.
10. By Circular in 1904 the Secretary of State urged on the Crown Colonies the importance of teaching Hygiene. The Governor of Hongkong at once made Hygiene a compulsory part of the School curriculum, and to stimulate the necessary interest until the novelty of the subject should have worn off, His Excellency provided several prizes, which for value compare rather with scholarships. I am pleased to report that HUNG IU-CHI, a genuine Queen's College product, was bracketed third in the Schools' competition in the Advanced Course, while by the success of our team of ten boys in the Elementary Course, the name of Queen's College will head the list inscribed on the Shield. ́ ́ ROBERT EASTLACK of III A and IP U-PIK of IV B were selected by the Examiners for prizes as having obtained the highest marks in their respective classes. In the Spring of the year there were in Queen's College over 700 boys receiving instruction in Hygiene, but this number dwindled through boys leaving school, until there remained for the Annual Examination 606, of whom 386 or 64 per cent. passed. The result is better exhibited in tabular form:-
82% passed L.A. 94%
Class I. 45 boys examined, 37
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II. 75 III. 127 IV. 170 V. 109
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It is thus evident that all the English Masters, who alone teach this subject, have entered with spirit into the teaching of Hygiene, and I may add that in the College eximination the boys themselves exhibited in their answers an amount of interest that quite surprised me. Since a first year's work can produce such satisfactory results, we are justified in supposing that in another three years after a progressive course of education in this subject in the Third and Second Classes, the boys in the First Class may really acquire Advanced knowledge in Hygiene.
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