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(a) sducation of
British inspira- tion at home.
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Arguments for the Committee's
The origin of the University
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A University was established in Hong Kong in 1911 on the foundation of an existing chartered College of Medicine to make further provision for education in the colony but also to become a "place for ligher Education where Chinese youths can remain under the influence of their own parents and guardians subject to the strong control which Chinese opinion exerts upon young men, instead of being adrift in a foreign country where a liberty unknown to students in the East is allowed to undergraduates." Fear of liberty for students, at
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home or abroad, nowadays, taxes a different shape. is still to be said, however, that a synthesis of Chinese and Lestern ideas and influences in the minds of young undergraduates is probably more readily effected in a
University which is an integral part of a society basically Chinese, though long and deeply permeated by British ideas and a a knowledge and appreciation of British institutions.
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2. To achieve this end and also with a broader underlying conception Lord Lugard founded an institution "for the promotion of Dearning the conferring of degrees, the development and formation of the character of students of all races, nationalities and creeds, and the main- tenance of good understanding with the neighbouring Country of China". As the Memorandus of the Colonial to the Far Eastern Committee of the ar Cabinet (U.. 0...C,3) points out "The conception of the University as a vehicle for the establishment of good relations between Great Britain and China was always foremost in the mind of the founder, Lord Lugard, who saw it as a centre from which would emanate an influence profoundly affecting a nation numbering one fourth of the population of the world". Evidence that this conception was shared by Chinese authorities is found in the fact that one of the major contributions to the original endowment of the University was subscribed in Canton with the encouragement of the Governor of the Trovince of à tangtung who expressed his strong approval of the project, when forwarding the gift. Further evidence was the willingness in these early days of most of the rovincial Govern ents of China to meet the cost of the students selected by their Educa- tion Departments for University studies in liong Kong. A number of these men now hold posts of high importance in the Central and Provincial Governments of China and in professions and commerce.
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