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We must and can start the three clinical years for the Medical Faculty and also provide post-graduate work in the Medical Faculty immediately. Unless and until new and better buildings are erected on a new and better site, we must carry, on in the present buildings. Meanwhile the University must plan to expand manifold at once, not merely in mumbers but in Faculties and Chairs, and in some respects in breadth of outlook too.
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Our old students of the 1st,2nd and 3rd years may have proceeded to qualify in war-time Chinese Universities in estern China, but they might like to come and take our Degrecs by attending a two years' advanced course, thus securing recognition by the General Medical Council, and the right to practise anywhere in the British Empire. Some Chinese will have started their medical Education in Great Britain and in the United States. Some of these may wish to finish nearer home,
It is objected that there will be no students able to matriculate nor able to benefit by instruction in English. I do not believe this. There are a number of schools which are probably still functioning in Western China with a fair grade of instruction in English, and a mumber of students in Hong Kong who have matriculated and wish to join the University.
For a short time we shall have to lower and widen our matriculation requirements.
Second, third and fourth year students in Arts, in Engineering and in science will be forth-coming (just as 2nd and 3rd year student in Medicine) from students returning towards China after the way.
I will take some long time for China to develop her own Universities to an adequate standard. Some of the personnel of the staffo will be recruited from Hong Kong University graduktes. As Hong Kong and Chinese Universities grow up together they should establish a strong and friendly relationship. However much the post-war Chinese Government may concentrate on Universities, they will fall far below her needs in the mere matter of the numbers they can traip. Here is a noble opportunity from
England to give friendly ald' to China.
Supposing the Hong Kong University voluntarily invites liquidation, what a bad example for Hong Kong middle schools who will be faced with similar difficulties in restarting! What an Opportunity for Singapore to say Hong Kong has had to abandon a University so let singapore be the home of the representative British University for the Far East!
If a New University projected in Hong Kong did not plan to start for five years after the end of the War, all the feeding schools in the Far East would have cast their curricula to train for Cainese and other Universities alone, and our University would have still fewer applicants for matriculation than at the end of the war.
In any case the Senate cannot approve of the University going into liquidation without the presentation of a paper showing our liabilities ang assets as far as they can be estimated and ascertained in this Camp. If we say we cannot give precise and accurate figures because no recorda are available in Camp let us have the rough estimates on which we are to base the claim that we are bankrupt.
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With regard to our present staff, many are dead and more may
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