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HOW THE PUBLIC CAN HELP!
This appeal has taken the form of a statement of the objects, the aspirations and the present measure of success of the University, an enumeration of its more immediate and imperious needs, and of an attempt to outline the kind of programme to be followed in the fature if it is to rise to the opportuni- ties which the University authorities believe to lie before it. In the case of an institution founded almost immediately before the world-war, any re- survey of the situation before the war was ended would have been premature. At the present inoment, when the whole question of education in China is almost au international one. any further delay would be out of place. If considerable expansion in num. bers is assumed, it is because all the indications are strongly and definitely in that sense, and because such expansion must be provided for in advance, if financial confusion is to be avoided and if growing sympathy is not to be estranged. Were the response to the appeal immediate and complete, it is believed that the University would be rendered definitely worthy of its position as the leading British educa- tional institution in the Far East, but it is to be observed that its income would even then not exceed what has recently been laid down by the Committee of the Privy Council us the bare minimum for in- colporation as a University in England. A partial
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