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It might well happen that the first two years of the Bachelors degrees could best be done in the "topa" of King's College or Queen's College or both, in the same way as a few students in our secondary schools carry on to the Intermediate and Higher Schools Certificate atandard. This would leave only two years of study for the Bachelors' degrees at the University and it might become usual for students to enter the University two years later than at present with the object of proceeding in four years to the Masters' degrees or to a double professional degree. But these are questions of detail once the principles are established.
To sum up, it seems to me that we should proceed to re-establish the University irrespective of the political future of Hongkong, provided always that this future does give us time to repair the University and set it on its course; and in the second place, while restoring and strengthening the undergraduate studies in a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, through which all must pass unless they already have a Bachelor's degree, wo should immediately set up the medical studies as post-graduate and add to them such advanced studies in Letters, Philosophy and Sciences as may seem to be most natural and practicable in the oiroumstances.
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