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13. If the University can look for no greater aid from all sources than it was able to command before the war, and as a consequence, the best to be expected was a University such as then existed, or in these days of even more difficult finance, even less than thai, we should regard the prospect as likely to have an ill effect hardly less than would result from the abandonment of the idea of a University.
14. Duon a British University, the only British University as yet in the Far Last, placed on the flank of China, would De caspared with both Chinese and the american-Chinese Universities. It might be better to accept the loss of
prestige that would be consequent on the reduction of the University to the status of a group of Colleges of less rank than to face permanently the judgment of pretentious inferiority.
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deantime, there is no doubt that the revival of the Colony requires immediately some proficion-for forms of higher education, and whatever tas future status of a higher education institation, the immediate provision must be built on the existing University foundations. The Committee therefore approves of what has been done by the statutory song Long University Provisional Fowera Committee to achieve this end, since what it has done and proposes to do will not prefudice the larger lasues that this Committee subaits to the judgment of H..Government. (The mesures are outlined in Appendix ...
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16. The Committee has been influenced in reaching its decision to recommend the development of a worthy British University by the opinions of those of its membera and its correspondents who can claim to know China and to be in a position to measure Chinese opinion. Sir H. Prideau sometime his eaty's Churgo D'Affairs in Chunking has pointed out that the future prosperity and welfare of the foreign community in China will be affected by the attitude and outlook of the Chinese educated classes. It ims been pointed out by another authority that till now China has Lost often turned to the people for help in higher education f watch the Com onwealth, despite notable efforts mainly by the British issionary societies which have lacked funds, personel and someti es had depended on international associa- tions for thoir funds, has achieved so little that the British name is associated in the Chinese mind with questions of commerce rather than/culture.
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Viewing the situation as he saw it in Chinking, Prof. P.4.Raxby, the chief representative of the British Council