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FAILURE IN
WIDER AIMS.
The slow progress of the University, except
in a measure, in Medicine, was disappointing
to its founders and disheartening to its staff. It did meet
the demanda, slight as they were from official scurces, of the
Colony, and facilities were made available for higher education
of Chinese from Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and of Overseas
Chinese generally, But in only a trifling degree did the
University succoed in becoming what Lord Lugard had hoped, c
centre for a University education of British inspiration for
students from China. Co-operation with Chinese Universities
was not achieved until it was almost imposed by the Sino-Papan
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'Incident', The causes of failure defined by the 193
Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University etc (H.K. W. A.C.
Paper. 2.) are accepted by this Committee. They wore
(a) the growth of national sentiment and political self-
consciousness in Ching since the Revolution (b) the difference
and of spoken language (c) the high cost of maintaining students
at Hong Kong University, compared with the cost of Universities
in China.
The early nationalistic antagonism against Great Britian had to
a great measure died down before the Sino-Jap "Incident" occurred.
The language reform movement in China had achieved measurable
success in its aim of establishing a common spoken language.
The PRICING OF
The disparity of costs remained. But to
these causes of failure should be added
the financial weakness of the University.
TRADEQUATE MEANS.8 [Behind the story of ratkor uncertain advance
there is the almost unbroken undertone of
poverty. The University was started with hopelessly inadequate
finances; Government help, except in the provision of a site,
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