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Mr. Sloss, who one gathered is far and away the
best Chancellor the University has had. Mr. Morse
went on to tell us that the University was
drifting without a policy, that the staff were
disheartened, the equipment poor, and that if the
University was to be maintained as an efficient
university new endowments must be found without
delay. The rate of expenses of the University at
Hong Kong (e.g. professors' salaries, as well as
the expenses of the students) was considerably in
excess of the corresponding costs at any of the
principal Chinese universities, and as the equip-
ment of Hong Kong University was inferior to that
in the best universities in China the only forseeable
result, unless something were done, was that the
University would rapidly lose any value it had and
would be not worth while maintaining as a
university
institution. All the facts were
known which bore on the situation and personally
he did not consider that it was necessary for any
Commission to be sent out to report before
decisions could be taken, nor did he consider that
it was necessary to await the restoration of
peaceful conditions in China, since whatever the
result of the present Sino-Japanese war the
problem would remain in its essential features.
What was needed, in the view of Mr. Morse and
Mr. Masson, both to set the University's finances
straight and to restore life to it and to its
personnel
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