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and here are again certain special advantages which the colony offers :--
Its dockyards and electrical and other works will afford practical instruction which rivalled in China for very many years; while the can hardly be location [of the University in A will, the one hand, form students who desire to obtain opportunities for an attraction to colloquial English
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in Cors, who might less willingly sccept an exis In the medical faculty more especially Hong-kong can offer facilities for practical anatomy in the dissecting-room which Chinese prejudice, at present at any rate, precludes in China.
Other subjects and degrees would be added as circumstances permit, notably an arts degree, which should comprise international law and treaties, geography, comparative history, and --not least-Chinese literature and classics, no that there may be no reproach of dissociating Chinese students from their national sympa- thies and language.
It is proposed that the University should be open to all races and creeds, but the students will undoubtedly be mostly Chinese, and Sir Frederick claims that among other results --- { It will promote a closer understanding and good feeling between ourselves and the Chinese, that it will stimulate commerce, and that it will in par- ticular benefit the colony not only in these indirect ways but by bringing us into closer relations with the gentry of China whose sons are being educated in Hong kong, and who will no visit them here.
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For it is not purposed or contemplated that the University will serve only colonial needs, It is anticipated that it will attract students also from the mainland of China; Chinese will assuredly not be slow to per- Iceive that here are to be obtained the advan- tages of Western education at a smaller cost, and under more desirable conditions in various ways, than by sending their sons to the West.
This, then, if I may be permitted again to quote Sir Frederick Lugard, is how the matter stands :-
A very fins set of buildings has been promised. These include eix lecture-rooms, three laboratories, a large hall, a large dining-room, two libraries, with levatories, offices, and professors' rooms on the ground floor and four large dormitories on the first floor. Detached from the main building is an laboratory, a recreation pavilion, & gymnasium, anatomical A swimming bath, an entrance lodge, tennis courts, &c. The Government is prepared, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to give a very fine site-probably the only one suitable for such a purpose in the colony. The moment is larly opportune, for if the University
singu- rated now the College of Medicine will be built on
is not inaugu a separate and very cramped site, and it is hope- less to anticipate that it will ever then become a Faculty of the University. Whether we are able to avail ourselves of these generous offers and of this present opportunity depends
open whether we
can raise an adequate endowment fund-which put at £110,000, including furnishing and the equipment of the libraries and the laboratories, engineers' shops, &c. Mody's offer remains open for six months. In these circumstances I earnestly appeal to all who desire on the one band to assist China lu acquiring Western knowledge, aud on the other hand to extend British prestige and the knowledge of the English language in the East, to assist in the project.
But £110,000 is a large sum, and things have not been too prosperous lately in the Far East. It will bo deeply regrettable if an opportunity that may not soon recur is lost through division of effort.
Sir Frederick desires the support of tha China Association, and I am authorized to say that the general committee feel confident the ayinpathy of its members will be attracted to a scheme which adds to the promise of efficient teaching for Chinese students that of enhancing the prestige of a British colony. Yours faithfully,
March 10.
R. S. GUNDRY.
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