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If the desired British atmosphere is to be main- tained-if, in other words, time spent at Hongkong is to serve the same purposes as time spent at a Univer- sity in Great Britain the senior teaching staff must be predominantly British, and British staff has be come costly and is likely to remain so.
This rise in cost has been accentuated by the fall in the value of money, but is likely to perpetuated by more permanent causes, While the pursuit of learning is recognized the world over as, in large measure, providing its own reward, the modern curriculum is increasingly composed of subjects a profound grasp of which opens the way to the great prizes of the professional and commercial world, and it has come to be recognized that great leaders in pure research and the higher teaching will be few if the field of selection is limited to men who lack the initiative to become leaders elsewhere. But, however the cause may be defined, teachers' salaries are rising in Great Britain, and hard fact is showing that the salaries formerly offered at Hongkong will no longer attract men of the desired calibre. The increases necessary are, it is believed, very moderate ones, but some increases are imperative.
*No absolute rule of exclusion is hereby intended, and a certain Chinese leaven in the Senior Staff has advatages of its own, In fact, one member of the professoriate is at present Chinese.
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