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may themselves be desirous of retiring and with whose services the University may be willing to dispense.
77. Having regard to the effect which continued
residence in the semi-tropical climate of Hong Kong may have on the individual it is proposed that all future terms of service should lay it down that the age at which a professor should normally retire will be 55 with the proviso that should the University require his
services he will not be released until 60.
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ORGANIZATION.
Although we are clearly empowered by our terms of reference to state our views on such subjects as organization and interior discipline, it is with some diffidence that we, as outside observers, broach such questions. In mitigation it is perhaps justifiable to observe that all four members of our Committee, even though it is a Government Committee, are in fact actually on the Council of the University, and therefore not only "Members of the University" as defined in Statute 2 of the University Ordinance, but also have a place in that body (section 11(2) of the Ordinance) which is described as having in its care "the government and control of the affairs of the University".
79. We have not enquired as to the model or models upon which the constitution of the University, as set out in the Ordinance quoted, was based; but we would suggest that the requirements of such an institution, separated by ten thousand miles from the academic traditions and atmosphere of the United Kingdom, may very well be wholly different from the requirements of a University in England. And we would say at once
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