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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 55.
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The following Report of the Hongkong Government Scholarship Examination, 1892, together with the Summary of Results, as required by Rule 20 of the Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
REPORT OF THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP
EXAMINATION, 1892.
To the Secretary of the
LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND LECTURES SYNDICATE OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
SIR,-We beg leave to submit to you our report on the above named examination, which we have recently conducted at your direction.
In the first place we present a table of the marks obtained by the five selected candidates.
ENGLISH SUBJECTS.
OTHER SUBJECTS.
Index Number.
NAME.
Grammar.
Composition.
Full Marks,.
100
200
1 Jamsedjee Pestonjee,
2 Leung Kwong-hin,
3 Thomas Cock,
00 1800
78
138 94
85
96 75
88
124 97
4
G. A. Yvanovich,
81
167
72
5
A. C. Gomes,
63
110 42
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Literature.
Total.
150
150
600
104
414
96
352
35
95
111 431
404
Geography.
Mensuration.
65
13 9 7 12
64
59
75
81
89
100
75
98 100
36 251 35
58
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Arithmetic.
Euclid.
Algebra.
Total.
Grand Total.
100 100 100 100 100 500 1100
69 76
57 45
25 8 3 9
87
361
775
57
81
343
695
89
92
451
855
95
90
458
889
56
251 502
On the above table we may remark that candidates 1, 3 and 4 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 400 marks in the English subjects; the same candidates and also No. 2 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 300 marks in the other subjects. We desire to commend in general the papers of the three candidates YVANOVICH, COCK, and PESTONJEE, who have qualified themselves for election in both parts of the examination, and also of LEUNG KWONG-HIN. The competition for the scholarship between YVANOVICH and COCK was very close. We beg leave to recommend YVANOVICH to the Colonial Government for election to the scholarship, as has already been announced to the Colonial Secretary by telegraph.
English Subjects.-In Grammar the answers to the whole paper were in general excellent. The Essays of the three most successful candidates were in varying degrees meritorious in expression, style, and thought. In History the questions which elicited the best answers were those on the period from the Norman Conquest to the Tudors, and in the special period (the reign of Victoria) those on our Colonial Empire and foreign policy. In the History of Literature the work on the earlier literature was superior to that on the later. The selected play of Shakespeare had been care- fully studied.
Other Subjects.-In Geography the best answers were on the United Kingdom and Asia. The best two papers deserve commendation. In most of the papers however traces of the study of Trendell's Colonial Year-Book were not very prominent. The mathematical work of all the candidates was good and in two cases extremely good. All did well in Algebra and Euclid, the work being intelligent and careful. In the arithmetical subjects there was some lack of accuracy in the work of three candidates. Taken as a whole the results of the second part of the examination are extremely satisfactory.
We have the honour to remain,
Sir,
Your obedient Servants,
31st December, 1892.
Correct,
(Signed) >
J. H. FLATHER, M.A., of Emmanuel College. C. M. JESSOP, M.A., Fellow of Clare College.
J. N. KEYNES, Secretary to the Syndicate.
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