15
host ofvielent use of die nite or sites, in order to ensure that nich staje of its hyn seal reconstruction or expa, sion contributes towards this fand puttoPA. The University Coul bout achieve bermarkunce i: it could be given financial suport in the foul of ensowment, particuż ply endowment of certain choirs am: ou some of its special activities such as its cebolarship scheme 3d 16e library.
x
(b) indie donk (hor caps.)
(চ)
1
in
econdly, the Jess for the University must ensure that it hem acoquate fwuls. In no sewe is the University called u_0› to compete in size and scope with the great universities on the mainlan, which have receiver an will receive generous financial sup ort from americe. at must however vivin ita carefully chosen field of activity be financially etrong and stable enough to achieve the highest quality termin of attracting a distinguished star. of providing the staff with adequate time and facilities for research. and with nto y leave for kɛepin: contret vi h thair chinese und Pritish colleagues, of subsidizing selected students through the provision of hostels so that they gain the full benefit of university life, The history of Hong Kong University in the past thirty years 10 Bigust proor o. the wasteful
xtravagance of un ler-financin“.
(c) JODAY. (not cars)
1 Thirdly, the university must continue to be an autonomous institution. The usual and conclusive arguments for univormity autonomy need not be repeated. It is sufficient to point out that in addition to these, there in the particular case of Hong Kong University, the factSthat it would not be the university of the colony in which it is situated so that local governmental control would be peculiarly inappropriate;
**O* Shat it could botter survive political changer 1. 36 were an independent, self- governing entity; ud te feer that it could more successfully Julvil ite special mission if it wore formally as well as actually to be free from government direction.
(1) THE 2 ANEH CHAR CTR OF TIU UNIVARUANY. (not caps)
20.
ourthly, the policy governing the resuscitation of the Unz alty for its original purpose must rest on an appreciation that that purpone will be achieved by indirect and not by direct me ens. The Committee does not envisage the University as repr onting Pritish scholarship by means of popular lectures on fritish institutions or British thought; Buch elementary teaching is not the primary function of a university. It will have ita influence by being an institution of British origin and a centre of learning linked so British standards and tradition; it will represent Britain, by providing access to the experience and progress of Pritish science and scholarship and by itself achieving the highest possible standards in its own work, whether that work be related to specifically "British" subjects (such as the appreciation of literature through the study of English literature) or not (as in the case of medicine or statistics). In its undergraduate work, the object will be the training of students on standards nocepted in the British university world, Teaching rather than the of "British" or "Chinese subjects.
Equally, in its post¿raduate and research work, it will act 23 a centre of contact between British anl Chinese culture by oblique rather than direct methods; it will for e ample not uscassarily limit its research to the stay of Chinese Lusophy, or to borderland studies like comparative languages or the historical and sociological aspects of
estern lluence on China. such otuđice are certain to arise and should be encouraged at the postgraduate level, but they are incidental to the essence of the contact, which is that British and Chinese scholars will be working in intimate
oollaboration