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the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council that as a temporary measure the Government grant to the University should be substantially increased so as to enable it to establish a School of Chinese Studies. Sir Cecil Clementi stipu- lated that no such recommendation could be placed before the Legislative Council, unless there was an immediate and substantial response from the Chinese.
The next step was taken by the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and the Hon. Mr. Kotewall who succeeded in collecting $200,000 for the endowment of the Chinese School and $60.000 for the building; this latter sum was provided by Mr. Tang Chi Ngong and the building has since been constructed. The Colonial estimates for the years 1929, 1980 and 1931, provided for a special grant for the The four support of the Chinese School which was opened in January 1929. year curriculum of this school which consisted of Chinese Classics and English was not recognised as a course leading up to a University degree.
On the 27th April, 1981, the Court of the University appointed a special committee, the terms of the reference to which were —
To review the arrangements which the University has made and is making for the teaching of Chinese and to advise the Court and Council of the University as to the future provision which should be made for the teaching of this subject, regard being given to Section 13 of the University Ordinance which makes it obligatory on the University to make due provision in its Arts Faculty for the study of Chinese Language and Literature.”
The Committee was presided over by the Colonial Secretary--its members were the Vice-Chancellor, the Deans of the three faculties, the Professor of English, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. Tao Seen Wan, Mr. Fung Ping Shan (he died on the 2nd August, 1931), the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr. G. P. de Martin. Father G. Byrne, 8.J., Mr. N. Thomas Tam and the University's Chinese Translator.
The Committee found that the School of Chinese Studies had opened in January 1929 with six students; that in January 1930 three new students had In joined and in January 1931, aix. Of this number seven had withdrawn. 1982 when the Report was drafted there was ten students in the school, these students being taught by six teachers. The Chinese teaching in the Arts Faculty was also being conducted by these teachers.
The principal recommendation of the Committee was that the School of Chinese Studies should be discontinued and that the University should confine its teaching of Chinese to those students who had passed the matriculation examination. the basis of such teaching being suitable and adequate courses of Chinese which should form part of the Arts Faculty's groups of studies leading to the B.A. degree. The Committee recommended the addition to the curriculum of the Faculty of Arts of two new groups of studies, one a group entitled
Chinese ** Chinese and English and the other a group entitled Studies," the former being regarded as more necessary and urgent. The Com- mittee also recommended the adoption of a modified matriculation for those Chi- nese students who might wish to take up such groups of studies as it advocated, the modification taking the form of a less exacting test in mathematics, but an
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