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Enclosure No. 2.
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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY
WITH REFERENCE TO
THE REPORT OF THE BRITISH ECONOMIC MISSION TO THE
FAR EAST.
If any practical measures are adopted as a consequence of
the Report of the Economic Mission to the Far East, it would seem to be essential that the University of Hong Kong should occupy the
foremost place in any scheme for the realization of the aims which
that report has laid down.
The University already has established close relations with
China in the following ways:-
1. Through its students who have come from the interior and
who now occupy important positions in China.
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By means of its local examinations which are held annually at Shanghai, Canton and Hankow.
By the Association of Hong Kong University Graduates which links together the past students in China.
4. By the scholarships which have been established for students
in Yunnan, Canton, Hankow and Pekin.
5. By the President of China scholarships which also served up
to 1925 to strengthen the bonds between the University and China proper.
A further close link with China now exists by the appoint-
ment of Sir William Hornell, the Vice-Chancellor of the University,
to a seat on the Board which administers the Boxer Indemnity Fund
in China from Nanking.
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It was always the intention the chief aim in fact of the
founders of the University in Hong Kong to strengthen the
culturalties with China through the University. Sir Charles Eliot,
the first Vice-Chancellor, devoted a great deal of his time to the
furtherance of this object which was only interrupted by the
political troubles and chaos of 1925 onward.
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