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professorships, visitin. X lotureships, and similar arrange-
monta vere moze partial ä.. their effect and would not achieve the continuous intimacy of a university. La scheme of scholarships for Chinese studionto to Uniɩểu Tingim
universities would, if intended for undergraduates, expose thom to too completely an alion atmosphere before they could
fully understand or profit from 16.7 However valuable some of such levelopments mi ht b as couplementary to a
university at Hong Kon; they wave not substitutes for it.
REASONS POD PAST FAILU E TO DRIVE WILD FÜNFORE.
12. Since this chief purpose had been proclained as one of tho original aims of the existing Hong Kong University, the Committée inquired to what extent it had served it ani whether its experience disclosed reason for its inability to do so more completely. The University has contributed use- Tully to Anglo- Chiacse relations; in the period 1928-38, approximately 30 per cent. of its students came from China; the standard of its professional trainin, particularly of doctors, teachers of inglish, and engineers, was highly respected in China. Novertheless the Committee, on the evidence before it, concluded that it haŭ not succeeded in ita broad purpose for t. ree main reasons - its poverty, its isolation and competition from Chinese universities. The Committee in analysing these features of the past, tried to asses: how far they would prevent the fulfilment of the broad purpose in the future.
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Without doubt the inadequate financing of the university was the chief cause of its weakness. It experienced a succession of financial crises, could not plan bol ly for its long-term and balṛmccd development, and was consistently understaffed, ith a staff over-burdened with teaching duties and with insufficient resources, it could not become a centre of research, worthily representing university standards and attracting students and scholars to it as a centro of learning. In 168 poverty, it could not provide a system of scholarships to enable students from China to como to long kong or to meet the higher costs of living inevitably involved in its being part of a different economy, Apart from an endowment contribution in its earlicst daya irom Canton,and,for a short time, scholörships from certain eti rovinces of China, nearly the full burden of financial support fell on local government resources.
the instance of the British"overnment the University received 260,000 out of the Boxer indeunity Fund and partial endowment of throe medical chair from the Rockefellor oundation, thood two together making almost the whole of its capi al endowment. the authorities of the territories from which nearly two-thirds of its students came contributed no crants for its support. It is clearly wrong to atɩsmpt to achieve an Imperial purpose ani leave
the full financial responsibility to one small Jolony. the University is to serve as an instrument for mutual understanding between the British and chinese peoples, the major part of the financial responsibility must fall on Imperial funds. The Colonial revenues, especially in this period of the rehabilitation of Hong Kong, are even less appropriate ow than before the war as the source of support for a university which would only indirectly serve some of its needs, A university Tulfilling the broad purpose envisaged by the comittee would be serving the interests of the Commonwealth and not merely the United Kingdom; the Committee hopes therefore that consideration, in due course,
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