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It has been suggested that cnough money to carry on for another year or so what is now being attempted could be collected. But I have pointed out that what is really required is not moroly vo carry on the Chinc so work in thirts Faculty but also to start
e now Chinese cours.. The successful students from the Government
Fornacular Middle School could not b. admitted into the Faculty of
Arts as ordinary students and von if they wore so admitted, they could not follow the course in any subject other than Chinoso.
20. I must sct my face against any proposal that we should abert now courses on any basis ac pt that of income availabl
om capital roccived.
but also impracticable.
Anything clou is not only unsound finance
Supposing collect enough money to
Binance the Chinos instruction in thirts Faculty and the
Chinese School for four years, then must confing these cours S
to the students rho are available at the start. We cant tako on
others, becaus. that pledges us to carrying on the instruction
beyond the four years limit, en betivity for which we have not
got the funds. I dont think tht it would be fair on the Univer-
sity to place it under a obligation to have to come forward st
regular intervals and bug for mony to carry on our Chinese work. ino University has many other urgent needs nd its financial pros-
pucts are such as to make any cxpLsion or improvement on its
present financial basis impossibl.. Indood in spite of my con- viction that the cxtension of the University's activities in
Thinus is of paramount importance, I should hesitate at this
moment to recommend an oppool for funds for Chinese studios,
it not that I am assured that there arc now in Hong Kong Chin, so
Jentlemen who would give to th.s. studies and to no other Univ.r-
sity ctivity.
HORNELL.
Vice Chancellor. 8th February, 1928.