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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY DECEMBER 8 1905
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
REPORT BY THE EXAMINERS,
inlal subject, and showed a good knowledge of Glais 17% English to Chinese.) The know: 12% In a few cares paragraphs out of iba reader lodges of): English, was milks insufficiant: for had been learned by heart It is worth noticing good translation work. The work on the The examiners—Messrs. E. A. Irving, G. N. tion was put, both here and in other classes, meaning of the Chinese was fairly well imp
that 8s per cont. of the boys to whom the ques whole was fair Chinese into English The Omme, and H. R. Well-bave presented their said that geography was their favourite lesson, ed. The work done shewed mar
akmarked in- report, dated 15th October, on the examination and gave intelligent reasons for the preference.provement compared with that of Class 111, S. of Queen's College held by them at the request of teaching the subject, or a keener desire for majority did very fair work Chinese to Eng. This indicates either a more interesting methed Class English to Chinese The of the Govemlog Body, Be
The Lower School was examined during the nese, or both. A year or two ago, the subject Chleese, though many points were still missed. such knowledge among the better class Chilib, The boys understood, much of the last week of June, and the Upper School dur appeared to bore Chinese boys intensely. ing this last ten days of July, after the Oxford HISTORY,
They need much practice in English compori, Local examinations were finisbed. The
tion, and also in the art of translation; .. aminat on was conducted, as it was last year,
GENERAL mainly by viva-voce in the Lower Classes (VIII to V inclusive), and by written papers in Clasics IV to I, and, as before, they have on deavoured rather to consider the system and subject matter of the teaching throughout the Schicol than to compare the merits of individual boys. The conclusions thus formed are ar ranged under the headings of the subjects studied..
DISCIPLINE, URGANIZATION AND
“APPARATUB, ✨
ex
The discipline is very god; the boys are well mannered, attentive and obedient.
It is not easy to form a distinct iden of the
progress made by the scholars, because no auit able records are kept by the masters. In many schoots the class-master keeps a book, which shews month by months, and term by term whether a due proportion of the appointed course has been accomplished at any given time. He may alan jot down in the same book comments as to the success or otherwise of the course, as experience suggears them. The terme reporis inform parents as to their sons' progress. it would be well if this practice were allowed at the follege. The more general use
The study of history in rightly left until a' bey enters the upper school, and then he is. We have avoided, so far as possible, ex intuated into the mysteries of English history, pressing opinions on subjects which have been and introduced to Wat Tyler and Jack Straw fully commented on in recent reports. the Duke of Buckingham and Guy Fawkes. Ar a whole the work of the school shows This study he pursues throughout the rest of a considerable improvement compared with his school career; and he forms perhaps as last year, English and colloquial showed a lucid an idea of the figures and doings thereof great improvement in some classos, Geo- as an English boy would form of a Chinema ac-graphy was also better done on the whole. The count of Confucius and the Duke of Chau. mathematical papers set were probably harder
than usual.
The early history of England is better un derstood than the later, because it is simpler; and Class III A have shown far botter results, on the period 1066 to 1399 A.D. than have Class IB on that of 1815 to 1871.
Class A alone exhibits any capacity for un
derstanding a history an alien to Chinese ident, and they have done good papers, History lends itself readily to the Chinese love of learn. divisions of all classes were weak, and did not ing by heart. Class II A did fairly.. The lower produce a paper of even average merit. It was noticeable tout in many of the papers done by Class I the Crimean war was described in, de- tail; but no good answers were given on the wars in India, Afghanistan and Burmah. A map of the Indian frontier was asked for, but only given by two boys, Questions on domes at the College of exercise books is greatly to betic and industrial progress were almost entirely desired. It would enable masters to see at a neglected or elec misunderstood. In Classes glance how their boys are getting on. And it and 11 alike no faculty was shewn for cor would be specially useful to a new master as adinating the facts of a period. They could not, means whereby to ascertain the general rate of for instance, take a comprehensive view of the improvement. Without such records, examin religious policy of the Stuarts, or the British ers can only judge of a class as they see it, and operations in India from 1815-1870. without reference to the work it has done in the past term or year. They are, moreover, sinable to form an opinion of the thoroughness with which written lessons are corrected by the masters. At. the College alates are used in every class. The examiners strongly recom. inend that in future they be confined to the Lower School.
The history papers abounded in mistakes of grammar and speiling, evidently duo in a large fegree to hurried writing
We can oaly nade in former reports, that a history of the world should be taught in the first place; next that this should be amplified, or if it be desired taught, and that the history, like the gangraphy, to particolarise, that a history of China be
of England and the European nations be left in as late a stage as possible.
repeat the recommendations
HYGIENE.
This new subject, which is studied in Classes
The big hall is used as a school room, where often four divisions doing different work are laught at once. The strain on the voices of The masters must be great. Regarded from an educational standpoint the arrangement is not satisfactory, inevitable though it may he owing to the great number of bays. It is suggested-V, does not seem to be popular. Only a few that if practicable the room be partitioned by boys have found their bearings in it. The ex- moveable screens..
aminers found it necessary to insist continually upon the reference which it has to the daily life. lowever, the boys at the top of the Lower Classes and nearly all the boys in the Upper School seem to have acquired some idea of the advantages of ventilation, pure water and the
Proceeding to detail the teaching of English in each of the classes in the school," the
·examiners say:
POOR ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, Divisions 1 and C'are entirely under Chi. nese masters. Division B gave us the impres-preparation of fond. A piesent only a few ele- sion of being somewhat sleepy. The master's English pronunciation it poor. A large pro- portion of the buys do not answer at all. The rest know their Render well, and wrote dicta- tion from it correctly. Division C was con- ducted apparently with much more spirit than Division 3: but the master's pronunciation of English is by no means correct. The boys understood a simple story told them by the ex- aminers.
Class V has four Divisions. Division A is under Mr. De Martin. It was a very hard mal- ser to get the boys to reply except in monosy, tables. Apparently the master is tos apt to cast his questions in a form which can be answered in one or two wards. Thus we heard him put the question:"How am I always telling you to reply to questions? All the boys answered with one accord, "Complete sentence." | Divi- sión A.was required to reproduce the substance of a short story told them by the examiner. The sense was reproduced with fair correct- ness; but judged as a composition it was some- what disappointing.
Division B was weak. There seemed to be a lack of energy among the senior buys. In Division C the boys except a few at the top were quite enable to make themselves heard The master always asks for explanations of a [new reading lesson in Chinese, which is a de- parture from the approved method of teaching.
Division D was also not very efficient. Class IV Division A. Here re-appeared traces of the old difficulty in getting boys to talk. In Division B the hnys elected for conversation did much better, and taked glibly enough About the proposed boycott of American goods. Division C did also very well in colloquial: but on pur happening to ask the boys examined how long they had been studying at the Col- lege, they proved to be all newcomers. And when in Division D we endeavoured to select
The weak places in the school appear to as to be situated in Classes V and IV and again in 11.B and I D. Bagain an ex- tremely wank Class. It is specially desirable. that Classes Vand IV should be strengthened.
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useful addition to the somewhat limited curri. they possess, the advantage that when once culum of an Anglo-Chinese School; further, learned they are not likely to be forgotten..
The chief difficulty of the boys has been The proper ventilation of a room consists in in separating the general from the particular. having an open space at the rear as ordered by, the Sanitary Board," and so forth. It is gratis ying to observe the respect in which that Body a breach of its bye-laws must not be confured is held, yet from an educational point of view
with defiance of a natural law. The value of a safe in keeping food clean is usually appreciat ed, but that of cooking does not appear to ob. vious, nor the use of clothing, nor the compara tive advantages of different materials and dif ferent kinds of food.
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The compositions of all four divisions taken together may be considered to be good, IV A being the best and IV C the weakest Division in this subject. This is the first year that an essay has been set to this class. It may be that the boys had not enough time to re-copy their composition; but 'whatever the reason, much of the work shewn up fails in neatness, nor does the handwriting compare well with the beautiful round hand taught in Class VII.
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In Class 111, the lowest Class in the Uf bioding and an ancient Chinese rites used Class IV. Compositions were set on foot. per School, the ability and willingness of the boys to talk English with a stranger has very Handwriting was not so good. The boys in in the worship of God. Dictation was fair. greatly increased very readily, except perhaps this class were still unable to explows paper. in III C. In 1 B they spoke very nicely, and They have been studying from 4 to 6 years.
simple poseen passages from a newspaper. in IIIA the accent and the vocabulary were good. Taking the three divisions together Class V. The compositions were mostly PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held composition was good. In Ill A, had it not good, though some were poor. Most of the
on MONDAY, the ith day of December 1905, at 3 PM on the Sites by Order of been for a bad paper done by one unlucky boy, boya had ideas, and could express them in fair
His Excellency the Governor, of Eight Lots of CROWN LAND, ni Kau" U Fong in the the average of the division would have been Chinese. Very few of them seemed to know Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT over fo per cent, and have gained the very dynasty. Their ideas of the times of the
that Confucius was a famous man in the Chat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 73 years. unusual mark of very good. As it was nearly Chinese dynasties were altogether vague. one-third of the boys examined Ko! full marke The weak points are lack of neatness and Dictation was very well written. Reading was "sketchiness": Clais 111 should show up at good, but a fairly simple newspaper article was least three-quarters of foolscap page. The not thoroughly understood. following is an example of a frequent mistake
No translation work is done in the Lower which deserves to be pillaried, "a strongest School, where the knowledge of English is in. man of the world," meaning one of the strong-sufficient to allow of the subject being studied est men in, the world. It is a trifle, but so English and Chinese versions of sop's Fables 10 advantage. It is true that in some Divisions common as to be worth correcting.
SHAKESPEARE.
Papers on "Julius Caesar" were set for a few Boys in Class 1, and some excellent answers were given, especially upon the characters of Brutus and Cassius, The text has been learnt with care, and lung quotations were given cor- rectly
GECORAPITY.
This subject is taught throughout the School, and it seems to be learned with more alacrity and interest than most subjects, shake Written papers were set to Classes IV, 111,
are committed to memory and written out, sometimes in one language and sometimes in the other.
English and of Chinese is assumed to be suffi
In the Upper School the knowledge of cisat to enable the boys to begin the study of translation from one language Into the other, Unfortunately, however, many of the boys in the Upper School still have not had a sufficient grounding in either language, VA A
In Class III the translation (Englich to Chinese) was fair to poor, in the piece given for translation from Chinese to English about 11 and 1. On the whole a way fair, knowledge one-third of the boys grasped the ideas con- [93] 'was shewn, Clase IV had in: Chias a' conge",
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