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could be made on the scale Mr. Morse envisaged.
If the maintenance of the University solely rested
on the needs of the Colony that would be a
distortion of the whole ideals of its original
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establishment when Sir Lugard was Governor
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in or about 1911. The University had never been
endowed on anything like an adequate basis originally,
and it had been dogged by financial trouble ever
since. Out of the Boxer Indemnity some ten or
twelve years ago, the plea of the University
strongly supported by the Governor and the Colonial
Office was only met by a quite exiguous grant from
the funds then available, and if we are to obtain
the new finances considered necessary, assuming it
is considered desirable to maintain the University
in the interests of general British policy in the Far
East, we should have to rely either on a subvention
from H.M.G. or from such a body as the British Council.
I suggest, and I think Mr. Mayhew agrees,
that if the Secretary of State could spare Mr. Morse
the time for a short personal interview this would
be a great encouragement to him and a satisfaction
to Sir Geoffrey Northcote and the University
Authorities.
I also think that we should do well
to convene a meeting at which a representative of
the Foreign Office and of the Treasury should be
invited to be present with Mr. Morse and Mr. Masson
Grauchurchst (who would both be available over the next few weeks
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