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inducement to us very seriously to press our appeal and to the friends of the University to respond to it. Making due allowance for the fact that we are already covering the whole of the pro- posed ground, though upon a less ambitious scale, I can only reiterate my opinion that we have more reason to be afraid of the effect of the proposals on our general scale of expenditure than of the expense directly involved, and one or two attempts I have myself made to obtain benefactions, although unproductive of any immediate result, leave me not without hopes for a not very dis- tant future. I should prefer to submit detailed figures to the Finance Committee to show that no undue risk would be involved in binding ourselves to the proposed programme. I am assuming that each of the two sums of $250,000 involved will be impressed with a trust limiting their application to the payment of salaries, allowances, etc., in connection with the department to which it is affected. In the event of the endowment on the same scale of any of the intermediate Chairs by private liberality, I should hope that the terms of the trust would cover expenditure on equip- ment, etc., as well as on salaries.
General Effect of Scheme.
22.-I may be asked for some general estimate of the situa- tion of our Faculty of Medicine.in the event of the proposed scheme being carried through.
We should. I think. take without challenge a place in medi- cal education in the Far East* second only to the Union Medical College at Peking. In relation to other medical institutions, and particularly to the mission colleges, I should attach more impor- tance to the fact as tending to set a standard than as aiding us in competition with them. As regards staff, the technical condi tions under which they would be working would, I conceive, be such as would go far to efface the existing feeling that a man in coming to us cuts himself off from promotion in England. In view, indeed, of the extension of the medical unit system in Eng- land, we might reasonably hope that principal assistants in Eng- land would be willing to take our Chairs as stepping-stones to Of the accuracy of this estimate we already full Chairs at home. have proof in connection with the proposed Chair of Anatomy, thanks in part to the good offices of the Rockefeller connection. our relationship with which would bring us into close touch with much that is most progressive in British medicine. To the reac
There tion upon our other Faculties I have already alluded. would, I have no doubt. be a corresponding reaction upon the centres to which we look for support. The support we need is far from being exclusively financial, but in the financial, as in other spheres, the prestige of a University grows by accretion.
• If the Japanese medical schools are not excluded, owing to language difficulties, this estimate would probably require qualification.
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23. In one direction, the proposed changes may give rise to anxiety. We have in the past relied largely on the part-time aid of private practitioners in Hongkong and have gained much from their sympathy: were our connection with them to be severed, the loss would be a grave one. I see no reason, however, why any such severance should occur. There will still be room for lectures in several special subjects, and I should look forward to the University's being regarded as an institution with which it was an honour to be associated in such a capacity. It is, in part, in order to be ready to meet the expenses of such special lectures that I should like to see monies at present spent on essen- tial subjects set free by the adequate endowment of the inter- mediate Chairs.
Recommendations.
24. I ask the authorisation of the Council
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to refer to the Finance Committee, for approval, the financial aspects of the proposed scheme:
b.
to refer the scheme to the Senate, for so much thereof as relates to the creation of new posts:
e. to apply to the Colonial Government for their con- currence in those parts of the scheme for which such concurrence is necessary:
d. to express to the Rockefeller Foundation the Council's warm appreciation of their large-minded
generosity as evidenced by the scheme:
e. to inform the Foundation that the conception of
the scheme embodied in the present Note is ap proved by the Council:
f. to apply officially to the Foundation for their assistance, in terms of the scheme, in the im- mediate foundation of the two Chairs of Surgery and Medicine, and in the foundation of the Chair of Obstetrics so soon as the practical difficulties incident thereto shall have been overcome and as our progress in giving effect to the scheme shall, in their opinion, justify such foundation.
24th March, 1922.
WILLIAM BRUNYATE
Vice-Chancellor.