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confidence of the most important
representatives of the local engineering
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industry, including some who at the start
were ready to support the University, in the
hope that it would meet their practical needs
and supply Chinese employees capable of
filling in due course posts of considerable
responsibility.
These firms seem to have
been forced into encouraging students who
show promise to come to this country in
order to receive the right kind of training,
since they consider that those responsible
for the department are not studying local
needs and conditions with sufficient care.
Such a result would obviously involve
unnecessary expenditure in maintaining an
expensive Faculty which (if the facts are as
represented) has proved unequal to the task
for which it was intended.
It