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internal reforms of the University
which had been recommended, and that,
if there was any suspicion that the
Report was to be sidetracked, the
result might have been the resignation
of most of the European unofficial
members of the Court and Council of
the University, and possibly also of
certain of the Chinese members.
For this reason, and in
view of the concurrence of both the
Governor and the Vice-Chancellor in
proposed to be
the action which was taken by the
University authorities on the Report,
it was decided to adopt the Governor's
strong recommendation that the idea
of an enquiry by outside experts in
the near future should not be pursued
any further for the time being. It
was felt that the Secretary of State
was