THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION.
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CONTENTS.
L-Letter addressed to Sir William Brunyate by the Director of the Division of Medical Education, Rockefeller Foundation, dated January 23rd, 1922.
II-Note by the Vice-Chancellor to the Council of the University on the above letter, dated March 24th, 1922.
Division of Medical Education,
61, Broadway, New York
23rd January, 1922.
Richard M. Pearce, Director,
My dear Sir William,
I have presented to the officers and trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation my report on the situation in connection with the medical school of the University of Hongkong, and as a result I may say that both officers and trustees are very sympathetically inclined towards offering the assistance you requested that is, the endowment of three chairs of medicine, surgery and obstetrics, at 250,000 Hongkong dollars each, or a total of 750,000 Hongkong dollars.
In the course of the discussion questions arose concerning the co-operation of the Government and University to bring about the situation which you desire, and more specifically as to whether the University could be certain of the support of the Government along certain lines which I, with your approval, suggested as measures which would aid in the general develop- ment of medicine in Hongkong. I therefore wish to recapitulate the various improvements which you thought you could bring about if the foundation were, on its part, to offer the endowment you requested.
It is my understanding that an offer of aid from us would enable you to go to your Government with certain definite pro- posals, and that your hand would thus be strengthened in approaching the Government." These general improvements are as follows:--
1. Each of the new professors will be considered as essentially a full-time man, though his duties at the university ought not to interfere with official duties of an officer of the colony. Each is to be given a house allowance which I think you placed at approximately $1800 a year. For each
The concurrence of the Government is, of contrse. necessary for any- thing connected with facilities in the Government Civil Hospital. As regards our financial needs, I have always made it clear that our appeal would be to the general public. See, in particular, my Budget Note for the period September-December, 1921 (dated July, 1921) page 5.-W.B.