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pre-matriculation course, and so the scholarship would have to be
extended over five years. If students took the medical course,
then the scholarship would have to extend over seven years. Many
of these scholarships should go to intending teachers for they are
most likely to go back into the interior where they are greatly
needed and from which they will be drawn (as they did on a previous
occasion) and they are an excellent medium for diffusing British
Ideals throughout China.
A total number of 100 scholarships tenable at the University
of Hong Kong should be offered to students in the interior of China distributed strategically over the various centres:- Pekin, Hankow,
uchow, Canton, Tientsin, Foochow, and Swatow.
A total of ten scholarships for post graduate work in England
should be offered to the best of these students from the interior.
This modest scheme is in my opinion within the present
teaching resources of the University, especially on the engineering
and arts side.
A larger scheme such as was set forth in the memorandum prepared by the University for the Boxer Indermity Committee in 1925
to correct those evils the existence of which the British Economic
Mission deplores in its report, would involve additions to the
teaching staff, to the library, and to the equipment generally.
The financing of this scholarship scheme would have to be undertaken in England for the recent grant made to the University
of £250,000 (the other £15,000 which was given was in payment of a
debt, the cost of the scholarships given to students from the
interior from 1920 onwards) out of the Indemnity Funds has been used
in stabilizing the financial position of the University, which the
heavy fall of the dollar imperilled, and in making several new appointments to the University staff.
(1) A Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
(2) A Reader in Philosophy
(3)