5414 7145
SINO-BRITISH SCIENCE CO-OPERATION OFFICE
(BRITISH COUNCIL CULTURAL SCIENTIFIC OFFICE)
BRITISH SCIENTIFIC MISSION IN CHINA
Please address from abroad:-
Co British Embassy, Chungking Via the British Council,
3, Hanover Street, London, W
Or via the British Commonwealth Scientific
Office, Dupont Circle Building, Washington, 6. D.C.
Or via China Relations Office,
Reserve Bank Building, Calcutta.
:
1, VICTORY VILLAGE,
LIANGFU LU,
CHUNG KING
137
中
英科學合
重慶兩浮路
1E
館
勝利新村一號
Please quote reference: 9.34 R
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., Colonial Office, London.
22nd August 1945.
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55-213/44
Dear Gent:
This letter is my answer to your letters of 27th. December 1944 (55213) and of 30th. May, 1945 (12955/F/44).
I am at last able to give you such views as I have been ableır to form on the future of Hongkong University.
Although I have not so far visited Hongkong I have had the advantage, during my time in China, of useful dis- cussions with, Professor Gordon King and vol. (Professor) Lindsay Ride. My first Chinese colleague here, Mr. Huang Hsing-Tsung, now at Oxford, was able to tell me something of the University from the students' point of view. I enclose a copy of a memorandum written by Prof. King (and embodying also the views of Prof. Ride) which was sent to you some time
ago.
I have also before me a number of documents which you were so kind as to send me, and a copy of the 1939 Report of the Committee on the Development of Hongkong University.
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First of all, I should like to say that I entirely agree with the view expressed in Ch.I of the Report that the university has a vocation to train students from all over China, representing thereby a University of British type and tradition. The American influence is of course widespread in Chinese edu- cation, and while I am an admirer of the many good points of
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