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the Yunnan entrants.
If we have seemed to lay too much emphasis
upon past shortcomings in this last respect,
we would not be thought to be unmindful of
the competition which the University has had
to face from the American side.
For many
years benevolent eyes in the United States
have traditiomly looked across the Pacific;
there has been a steady stream of aided students
from China going to the American Universities,
and Goverment on other posts throughout the
length and breadth of Ching are largely filled
by such returned students. It is too much,
perhaps, to hone that Great Britain, with the
whole of India on most of Africa (to look no
further) to think of, should pay an equal
attention to China's needs. And yet it is
just upon Chim, in the opinion of most
thinkers, that the whole future of civilizatiɔn
may largely depend. If we have done anything
to draw attention to Hong Kong's responsibility
in this respect we shall be satisfied.
Almost the first action of this Committee was
to address Government stressing the need for a
prompt and careful selection of a new Vice-
Chancellor. The same subject occupies our
closing reflections. To renew contact with
Chinese educational circles, to infuse into
the staff and into the undergraduate body a
spirit of life, will require a man of character,
leadership and enthusiasa, and we have written