Mr. Laxstye—I rise to support Mr. Jamieson's proposition. If there is an one thing which stands more to the credit of Shanghai than any other it is, T think, the kindness and consideration with which it has always treated children. T think there is no place in the world where the child has a better time of it than he has in Shanghai. Nevertheless, Shanghai has only done half its duty in this respect. To its honour, be it said, Shanghai has always remembered that boys will be boys, but Shanghai has forgotten an equally important fact, that boys will ye men, and they have not laid a sufficient foundation for these boys to develop into the kind of men we would like to see them develop into. Cakes, sweets, and toys ave all very well in their way, but something else is required if owe boys are tu grow up and to carry on this Settlement im such a manner as their fathers have done before them. I think we have a very important duty in this matter, and one which should now be faced. firmly. If I were to stand up in any assembly in Europe or America, and make use of such well-worn truths as these, I should expect to be looked upon as an educational Rip Van Winkle. But strange to say, in this case it is the modern up-to-date Model Settlement which is the Rip Van Winkle. To my own knowledge it has been waking up for the last ten or a dozen years, and it is not quite awake yet, and requires a vigorous shaking in onder that it anay get its eyes open to the important matter which Mr. Jamieson has now brought before you. About fifteen or sixteen years ago, when I was in charge of a purely native school, an English lady came to me and begged' me to take in her son, to be educated amongst a class of Chinese boys. I told her the school was not intended for foreign children but still she said that there was no other Anat was the first thing that opened my lace that she liked to send her son to.
eyes to the wants of foreign children in Shanghai. After that other people came, and in time I had half a school for foreign boys and half a school for Chinese. They were there side by side, some worked in the same class, and yet their parents did not object to this disadvantage in order that they might have them taught in the place they wished, and there was no more suitable place for them. Now I am of opinion that there is no time more opportune than the present for bringing this matter to a head,
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