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The present appeal was authorized by the Uni- versity Court at its 17th Meeting, held on December 20, 1921, and its preparation was entrusted Committee composed of the Hon. Colonial Secretary, the Hon, Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, who were to act in consultation with the Vice-Chancellor. The then intention was that not only should the immediate needs of the University be set out, but a detailed programme of expansion should be prepared, covering a number of years and supported by accurate estimates of the expense like- ly to be involved. That intention was, however, frustrated by the illness and subsequent death of Mr. Sharp, to whom the University was under a deep obligation for his work as Chairman of the Univer sity Commission of 1920, and before his place could be filled by the Court, Mr. Lau Chu Pak also passed
away.
In the meantime, the Vice-Chancellor had been privileged to announce, at a Special Congregation held on 7th April, 1922, for the purpose of confer- ring an honorary degree upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, that the Rockefeller Foundation of New York had offered a grant of $500,000 for the purpose of endowing full tune Chairs of Surgery and "Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, conditional only upon the Faculty being brought into harmony in other respects with the modern standard of
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