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EXTRACT from a letter from Mr.S.B.B.McEldery.
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The University seems to have fallen on evil days through lack of funds. But it probably suffers even more from lack of ideals. Most of its supporters
seem to regard it as a sort of advertising agency for
British machinery.
Hardly any of the staff know Chinese or see any necessity for learning it. They are here to spread Western culture. Mutual understanding between
students and staff seems to be considered a secondary
affair.
The Canton Christian College, which is an
American institution seems to me to be working on much
sounder lines. It is much more in touch with Chinese thought, gets as many as possible suitable Chinese
with Western education on its staff, begins with a
school and is working up to a University as it gets a supply of schoolboys educated up to a more or les8
uniform standard and capable of going on to University work, and pays much more attention to Chinese
literature and ideas. Now they are working up an
agricultural school, which should be of great value. Here in Hong Kong we have done little or nothing to improve forestry or agriculture though the new
Territories should provide plenty of scope for both.
Chinese and Europeans in Hong Kong alike are
measured mostly concerned in money making and success is by very
material