1.
SUPPLEMENTARY CONFIDENTIAL REPORT
of the
UNIVERSITY (1937) COMMITTEE.
On the assumption that our main Report will be
given some degree of publicity we desire to record our opinions upon a few points which, although not of a very confidential nature, should not in our view be published in the press.
(a)
(b)
We consider it a serious defect that the University is no longer represented on the Committee which controls the Boxer Indemnity funds. Until a few years ago the Vice- Chancellor was a member of that Committee, and we should be glad if the new Vice-Chancellor could regain that position. This would, we consider, be valuable means of establishing those contacts with China's educational authorities which we have already suggested are so desirable nl necessary for the future of the University.
We are conscious that the University has in the past been considered too much a "Colonial"
affair.
The position of Hong Kong is unique in that it is politically and perhaps strategically a colony but in almost every other respect more analogous to a Treaty Port. We would express the hope that the "Imperial" aspect of the University might be more fully appreciated by the home Government than at present, and in particular that the Foreign Office and its representatives in China might
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