Advisory Committee are emphatically of the opinion that it wuld be "both unrise and uselens" to attempt to fill the vacant professorships until the fatme of the University oăn be clearly defined.

8.

šile we do not recept ŝloss's views in their entirety, we think there may be some advantage in deferring the re-opening of the University until January, 1947," when the position regarding staff and equipment should be more satisfnatory and when a dicinion will, a hope, have been ranchal on the future of the University.

D. Gloss has put forward a suggestion that, in the meantime, the facilities of the University might be made available for the purpose of higher education at the earliest possible date by placing them under the direction of a temporary ad hos Government Committee. fo understand the "n executive act is required to keep the University its present state of maperise, and that this can contime so long as appointments to the Counail Senate are not filled. Elone tells us that, in fact, a Committee has been metablished under the Chairmanship of Professor Simpson, and includes in its mmbership Professors Robertson and Gorden King, Horse and Followes. If this Committee wire expanded to include the Director of Education and such other Government officials as you think desirable,

rofessore Rol

together with two or three former Chinese mesb@r:# of the University Council, it would be the sort of Committee he has in mind.

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It muld be neobszary, of course, that this Commitšou should maintain standards that the University, sum reconstituted, would find no

difficulty

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