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THE SECRETARY.
TELEGRAMS, "AUGURY, LONDON”
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Dear Mr. Gent,
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Seymour House.
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KONDON SMK
17th December 1940.
The Trustees again considered the question of a grant to khs Hong Kong University at their Meeting on Saturday, and decided to confirm their previous offer, which they now under- stand will be agreeable to Hong Kong University, of a sum of
1,000 in all, to be spent over a period of five years of thereabouts, to enable one or more Chinese, or Chinese British subjects,to come to Oxford.
I think that it is important to see that this post- graduate studentship (as I suppose it will be called) for one,
or possibly two, Chinese Students, is not confused with the Rhodes Scholarships. Do you think that it would be appro- priate to call it a "Rhodes Trust Post-Graduate Studentship"? I consulted the Registrar here as to whether it would be necessary to obtain the approval of the University before establishing this Studentship and he tells me that that will not be necessary. The grant, of course, will be paid no to this University, but to whatever Body is to administer it and nominate the recipients, which, I presume, will be the Governing Body of Hong Kong University. The Registrar als o points out that, since these Chinese graduates, when they come into residence here, will not come under the jurisdiction of the arden of Rhodes House, it would be well to inform Mr. Williams on, the Secretary to the Delegates for Oriental Students in the University of Oxford, of what is in the wind, since it will be his duty to endeavour to find colleges for the
I will send him a line myself, but perhaps you will wish, in due course, to correspond with him officially.
men.
The Registrar has also kindly sent me the following note on the conditions under which Senior Status can be granted to students from Hong Kong:-
"The only Hong Kong Degrees at present approved for Senior Status are the B.. degree, and the B.Sc. Engineering with 1st or 2nd Class Honours; the Hong Kong B.A. is not definitely approved and each candidate holding that degree must be considered on his merits. Thus, although it is unlikely that a recipient of a grant, being a picked man, would not be approved for admission as a Senior Student, there is no certainty in the matter. The matriculation examination of the University of Hong Kong qualifies, of course, for
exemption from Responsions, if the candidate has satisfied the Examiners in two of the languages Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish (one of which being either Latin or Greek) but I suppose that most of the men who might come under the proposed scheme would need Senior Status, since this exempts from the 1st Public Examination and enables the Oxford B.A. to be obtained in two years.
"The admission of a Hong Kong B.A. as a candidate