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I can assure you that such an incident will
not recur while I am Vice Chancellor. I have always
recognized the necessity for increasing the number of
Chinese on the University staff and I appreciate the
fact that that necessity has become all the greater now
that we are on the point of getting £265,000 from the
Boxer Indemnity a contribution which we should not have
got at all, if Dr. C.T. Wang and his colleagues had
opposed the wishes of His Majesty's Government in this
respect. It has, however, been my experience that it
is not easy to find Chinese who are qualified for Chairs
in this University. Not a great number of Chinese
students go to British Universities; many more go to
America and those who do well there are generally taken
on by American Institutions in China. For medical
chairs we want specialists.
The Chair of Pathology is
still vacant, but so far as I know in the whole history
of the University's Medical School, only one graduate has
specialized in pathology and its allied branches and he
was a Malay Dr. Mustapha Bin Osman. We recently advertised locally for an Assistant in Pathology to
succeed Dr. Osman, but got a very poor field of applicants.
Very few of our own graduates take post-graduate courses
and I imagine this is largely true of universities in
China generally. However, I shall see that the two
existing vacancies the Chair of Pathology and the Readership in History which I am now referring to London,
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are advertised in China also.
I am,
Yours very sincerely,
(Sa.) W. W. Hornell.
Vice-Chancellor.