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that the project included a class for teaching Cantonese.
The re
have been no protests or comments, but equally there have been no
subscriptions. It is true that we did not definitely ask for any.
If it is thought that to include the class in the scheme for the
school would endanger the collection of money for the school, then
perhaps Government would guarantee the cost of the scheme for a
period of say five years, but I am including in the scheme the
necessary provision for the Cantonese Class.
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If we cannot collect the necessary funds and have to
resort at the close of this year to the previous arrangement under
which the only Chinese teaching provided in the University is
teaching in the Arts Faculty up to the Intermediate stage, then
it will, I think, have to be seriously considered whether the
University is an institution which has any claim to maintain a
general Chinese class, though the University would doubtless be
willing to continue to receive the cadets and to continue to have
in the University a class for their instruction, provided the ex-
penses of the class were found by Government. That I mean is that
oven though the University were faced by lack of funds practically
to ignore Chinese as a subject of study, Government might still
hold that there were advantages in sending the cadets to the Uni-
versity which this noglcct of Chinesc did not altogether vitiate.
On the other hand if the University makes practically no provision
for the teaching of Chinese to Chinese students, it would perhaps
be a little anomalous for it to offer Chinosc instruction to
forcignors generally.
13.
Now as to the staff. I am assuming that from the Govern-
ment Vernacular Middle School and cl scwhere there will be a rogular
supply of students to the proposcd Chinese School. I am told that
the annual supply will be not less than five and that it may be
At any rate there will be, after the schome has been running
for three years, four classes to be provided for. I am told that
When all the four classes are working the following staff will bc
morc.
required:-
P.T.0.
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