in their school consist of two classes, the first, admitted last year, numbering about ter, and the second, of about forty members, who being about 20 years. They are instructed joined this year, the average age ofthe latter in the art of teaching, reading, and composition, They have mate wonderfal. pro and some of them are even now able to speak Japanese with considerable fluency.
he Higher School" consists also of two departments, one, the "Normal School," exclusively devoted to teaching and training future teachers to be eventually distributed over the Island, and the other the "General or Literature Department," the members of which, besides being instructed in Japanese or Chinese according to their original nationality, have to study with view to fit themselves for professional or other careers. The subjects taught are readin; writing, arithmetic," book-keeping, geogt phy, history, physiet, music, and gymnastice this school three' "Subordinate Institutions" are attached for the instruction of the young. They are intended to afford facilities for the pupil teachers from the Normal School to practise and perfect them= selves in their profession as well as to serve for models for the future parish or " Elementary Schools" throughout the Island. In the first or higher of these "Subordinate Institutions" all the elementary subjects above stated are taught, but in the second, or lower division, geography and history are omitted from the course. All applicants for admission to the " Normal School" must be between 19 and 30 years of age and have been through the " Middle School" course. Those for the " Higher School" must be between 15 and 30 years of age. The natives entering this school must have passed through the lower " Linguistic" School course. The pupils at the "Subordinate Schools" are admitted from 8 to 15 years of age. For the normal school the students have all their expenses paid by government.
In the High School there are tivo classes, one supported by the government, and the other, provide for themselves, but in all the schools no tuition fee is charged.
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