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It has boom suggested that enough money to carry on for
another your or so what is now being attempted could be collected.
But I have pointed out that what is ruclly ràquired is not moroly
to carry on the Ching so work in the rts Faculty but also to start
e now Chinese cours.. The successful students from the Government
Vernacular Kiddle School could not be admitted into the Faculty of
Arts as ordinary students and ven if they were so admitted, they
could not follow the course in any subject other than Chino so.
I must set my face against any proposal that wo should
start now courses on any basis cxc.pt that of income available
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from capital recived.
but also impracticablo.
Anything else is not only unsound finance
Supposing To collect enough money to
finance the Chinese instruction in the rts Faculty and the
Ching sc School for four years, then must confine these cours、s
to the students who are available at the start. Wo cant tako on
others, because that plcdgos us to carrying on the instruction
beyond the four years limit, en activity for which we have not
got the funds. I dont think that it would be fair on the Univer-
sity to place it under an obligation to have to come forward at
regular intorvels and bug for money to carry on our Chinese work.
The University has many other urgent moods and its financial pros-
Ducts are such as to make any expusion or improvement on its
prosent financial basis impossibl.. Indood in spite of my con-
viction that the cxtension of the University's activities in
Chinoso is of paramount importance, I should hesitate at this
momont to recommend an ppool for funds for Chinese studios,
it not that I am assured that there arc now in Hong Kong Chin, so
gentlemon who would give to thos. studice and to no other Univ.r-
eity rotivity.
HORNELL.
Vice Chancellor. 8th February, 1928.