5.

permitted, and no test of religious belief or pro- fesssion shall be imposed, in order to entitle any person to be admitted as a member, professor, lec- turer, teacher or student of the University, or to hold office therein or to graduate thereat, or to hold any advantage or privilege thereof."

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However, as I have already said, the Council intervened

(how the Council got the information that Dr. Wang's ap-

plication had been ignored does not appear) and having in-

tervened, nothing was clearly allowed to stand in the way

of the best man being appointed, even though another man

had actually accepted the post.

11.

I can assure you that such an incident will not

recur while I am Vice Chancellor. I have always recognize d

the necessity for increasing the number of Chinese on the

University staff and I appreciate the fact that that necess-

ity has become all the greater now that we are on the point

of getting £265,000 from the Boxer Indmanity - a contribu-

tian 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 ex-

perience that it is not easy to find Chinese who are qumli-

fied for Chairs in this University. Not a great mumber 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 patho-

logy and its allied branches and he was a Malay Dr. Musta-

pha Bin Daman. We recently advertised locally for an Assis-

tant 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 tme of

■ universities in China generally. However I shall ace

that/

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