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failed to provide sufficient breadth and quality
in its History Department. The importance of studies in Far
Eastern History was recognized but there would gain by an adequate background of knowledge of Western and American
History.
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The minimum staff required would be :
Professor Reader
A 2 Lecturers
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Dividing responsibilities for studies in Western and Far Eastern History Tutors.
It is believed to be of primary importance at
this stage both of the development of a new
Colonial policy and of the emergency of modern institutions in
China that adequate provision should be made for the study of
living institutions against a background of political and
A sub-Committee was economic theory, and of sound history.
appointed to consider this matter in more detail and to take
counsel with English scholars in this field.
After con-
sultation with Professor Ginsburg and Professor Marshall of
the London School of Economics an outline plan was presented
which the Committee still has to consider. This Department
should grow into one of the major Departments in the Faculty
of Arts. The minimy staff was estimated at :
1. Professor in Social Philosophy
1. Lecturer (Economics)
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1.
Lecturer (Chinese Economics)
Lecturer (Economic History)
1. Lecturer (Jurisprudence and Social Law)
Lecturer (Administration)
PHILOSOPHY :
A University in Hong Kong, if it should become
the natural meeting place of Chinese and British
scholars was thought to be an obvious place for comparative
studies in Eastern and Western philosophy. For a beginning the
staff should be: