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standard, and with a staff inevitably
deprived, through overwork and lack of
equipment and of the proper environment,
Dome
of any hope of making serious contribution
to knowledge, is likely in the long run to
have an even more drastic influence for ill
RANTS? upon British prestige. The Commonwealth
would earn in China, and rightly earn, a
name for pretentious inefficiency that it
can ill afford. This likelihood, and the
sinister effect of such an impression, will
both be increased by the fact that the United
States fill unquestionably, in a score of institutions that will be generously, even
lavishly, equipped, be making a real
contribution in the heart of China both to
Chinese education and scholarship and to
cushioning the impact of Western culture and
science upon the Eastern world. This is
true to some extent today. To anyone who
can read the writing upon the wall it is
obvious that the American effort will be
few
increased many times in the next/decades.
dilemma
This is the delivere with which we
are now confronted. Fortunately there is
a way in which both/herrors may be avoided,
the strengthening of the University and its
reorientation especially to attract students
and graduates from the mainland of China.