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3.
The Committee having been appointed by me as
Chancellor its report was referred to the Council of the
University for consideration and I held a special meeting
of the Council on 9th June for that purpose. Subject to
the views of the Senate and the Finance Committee on the
contents of Chapters VI to IX inclusive (Medical,
Engineering, Science and Arts Faculties) and of the Finance
Committee on Chapter X (Libraries) the Council accepted in
principle the whole report, though they recognized that
without very generous help from outside sources many of
the recommendations in the report could not be implemented.
Except on one point of detail, to which I will allude
below, the Council's endorsement was unanimous.
4.
The Committee's report is so lucid and, as I
think, convincing that I do not propose to comment at
length upon its contents. The foundations of its
arguments and recommendation are stated in Chapter III and
are, firstly, that the only justification for a University
in this small Colony is that it should provide a
University education of British inspiration for Chinese
students; that in order to induce those students to come
here the University must be more amply staffed and equipped and expenses must be within their reach; and, lastly, that those conditions cannot be fulfilled without co-operation from China and a considerable increase in income. The se
premises are, I submit, incontrovertible.
5.
I venture to feel assured that the advice given in Chapter IV upon the University's relation with those
of China will have your warm support, as it has mine. Clearly it will be for the Chinese Ministry of Education to decide whether action shall be taken to realize these
suggestions and I am doing no more than causing copies of the report to be sent to the Minister commending the