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give it what support they can. The British
Consulate in Yunnanfu has for years been active in selecting certain scholarship
candidates from that Province, but apart
from this we are not aware that either the
Embassy or the Consulates in China have
shown any enthusiasm for or interest in the
University.
We would again emphasise our opinion that
all our recommendations will be in vain
unless the University deliberately returns
to that ideal of its founders of a steady
stream of students from China and back to
China, The stream need not, at least for
some years, be large one, but without it
we are conscious of a certain lack of aim
among the teaching staff which is reflected
in a certain spethy on the part of the
general public. We need not specify the
causes which led to the demming of the
original stroen (except for a tiny trickle
from Yunnan) ten years ago. Nor need we
say more then that funds must be found to
provide the necessary scholarships now. If
our recommendations lead to considerable
economies it is, we are convinced, in this
direction that the surplus funds should be
spent rather than in expanded activities or
(still less) in larger salaries. That the
language difficulty is not insuperable is proved by the expedient of a year's pre- matriculation study provided in the case of