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The need for the University to serve the
Colony that housed it and to cater for the
requirements of students from overseas
again diminished the resources it could spare
task,
for its larger and more vital task and increased
the discrepancy between costs within China
and without.
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The language difficulty proved
the Colony was slow to accept
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the modified Chinese spoken end written
language-derrapadas developed a common
medium for all China
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growth of Chinese Universities in the present
century at once provided local attractions
of comparable and latterly even in a few examples higher standards, and intensified
the local pride which caused pressure to be
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trought to bare upen good Chinese students
to attempt to obtain their nigher education
in their own land. At the same time British
other
and Chinese Universities overseas skimmed off
and
some of the cream with them Hongkong University
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could not compete, and sources such as the
Boxer Indemnity Fund and the great American
Philanthropic educational foundations assisted
to finance a large proportion of such students
unversity
as sought at undergraduate career external to
Ehina.