Mr, Massey said that a particularly] heavy responsibility was left by the late Mr. Henry Lester, to provide British boys in China with a good and proper education which would compare with that of a Public School in England, but to-day the Committee of Management were successfully running a school divided Into a public school and a prepara tory school. There were 52 boys of the public school age and 82 of the! preparatory school, The school was capable of taking 200 boys, and the present number was 135.
The cost of teaching worked out)
$1,000 per annum for each bos, towards which school fees amounted to $250 to $300. With such a good school at their disposal, he saw no reason why parents should send their boys home to be educated. Out Fe, the cost would be tar cheaper and in ten years time parents would have saved" sufficient to send. their boys to Oxford or Cambridge, if desired,
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