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(Application) Act, which enumerates the specific purposes for which the sum of £200,000 was granted out of the Indemnity Fund to the Universities' China Committee. These purposes are described as follows:-
(i.) To arrange for such Chinese men and women to visit and lecture in the United Kingdom and such British men and women to visit and lecture in China as may seem to them suitable;
(ii.) To assist Chinese students coming to the United Kingdom to find hospitality and suitable living accommodation; (iii) To advise Chinese students as to their course of studies in the United Kingdom and as to other matters connected therewith;
(iv.) To encourage and facilitate the teaching of the Chinese language and literature at the universities of the United Kingdom by the endowment for those purposes of professor- ships and lectureships, or otherwise;
(v.) Generally to acknowledge closer intellectual co-operation and to promote cultural relations between China and the United Kingdom.
It seems clear that only a person of industry and ability, and possessing knowledge and experience of no ordinary kind, could be expected to deal satisfactorily with the various departments of so comprehensive a scheme of work. He should be prepared to devote his whole time to his duties, and being necessarily a man of special qualifications he should receive adequate remuneration. In our opinion the best and most convenient arrangement would be the existing one, whereby the post is combined with that of Secretary to the Universities' China Committee. The Committee would thereby remain in close touch with the whole programme of work and would also be in a position to see that the various educational projects which it had sponsored were being carried out to its satisfaction and in full accordance with its own authorised plans.
In our estimate of expenditure we have allowed for the Secretary of the organization being paid a salary of £1,000 a year, and we allocate a further sum of £550 a year for office and other expenses, including clerical assistance. We also suggest that a maximum of £500 a year be set aside for administrative, travelling and miscellaneous expenses. The Committee will probably consider it desirable that its Secretary, being also the officer in charge of its varied activities, should at rare intervals of perhaps three years or more pay a short visit to China in order that he may maintain close contact with actual conditions and
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may also keep in touch with the members of the corresponding organiza- tion or sub-committee which, as we have said, should be set up in that country. It may also be considered desirable that the Secretary of the sub-committee in China (to which detailed reference will be made in the following sub-section) should pay similar occasional visits to England. All the costs of such visits should, we suggest, be met out of the £500 assigned to the Secretariat of the Universities" China Committee for administrative, travelling and miscellaneous expenses".
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If it be thought that the money allotted to the Committee's Secretariat (namely, a total of £2,050 per annum) is an unreasonably large proportion of the annual income which the Committee may expect to derive from its invested funds, we would point out that the Secretary's duties will be executive as well as secretarial, that he will be the pivot of the whole scheme and essential to its successful working, and that his office will be the agency through which the Universities' China Committee will exercise all its functions.
(f) Machinery for Carrying Out the Purposes of the Universities' China Čommittee in China.
The third of our terms of reference requires us to make sugges- tions to the Committee as to the possibility of constituting a correspond- ing member or a corresponding committee in China.
We have carefully considered this matter in consultation with many British and Chinese in China who are interested in our plans, and as a result of such consideration we recommend that a corresponding sub-committee be appointed to officiate as the agents of the Universities' China Committee in that country. We consider that a really efficient and energetic sub-committee carrying out its functions in China in closest co-operation with the Universities' China Committee at home is fundamental to the proper working of the general scheme which we have in view. It will constitute the necessary liaison between the British universities (through the Universities' China Committee) and the academic world of China. It is unnecessary in this Report to specify all its functions in detail, but among them will be the following:
(a) To draw up and maintain a panel of suitable Chinese lecturers to visit Great Britain and such other parts of the British Empire (such as Canada) as may be desirous of sharing in our activities.
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