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Sir George Moss thought it would be useless to ask the Government to provide five or ten million if they had no assurance that the University would be welcomed and given fair play by the Chinese Government. In the present state of the world it should be possible to get assurances quite quickly. He thought the Foreign Office could find out.
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Mr. Sloss said that in his time, he had never known a single instance of a Hong Kong graduate being refused employment in any Chinese Government Department provided that he knew Chinese. That had been the obstacle. So many Chinese from overseas came to Hong Kong because they did not know Chinese. They then applied for posts in China and not unnaturally were refused.
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Mr. N.L. Smith said it should be remembered that in 1911, when Sir Frederick Lugard had his inspiration universities in China were almost as unknown as motor-cars. There was a medical school at Peking, something at Hankow and a few missionary institutions only. Now they were thick on the ground. The creation of Hong Kong University was intended as a lighthouse to show the Chinese what a
&levant university could be. It might
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Mrs. Foster remarked that the standard of
Chinese universities was low.
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Professor Hinton thought that some were very good, although they were naturally in a bad way now. But surely all the activities of a university, once there was a college of arts and science as a basis, need not be of an under-graduate character. The idea should be not a large university, but to try to provide facilities for research work and to bring people from the Chinese
In that universities to Hong Kong for higher degrees. way a considerable number of graduates of reputable Chinese universities could be drawn to Hong Kong from China. Professor Hinton submitted that it was almost unknown for a university to disappear. States disappeared, but not universities.
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Mr. Sloss said he would not like to countenance
When one any depreciation of Chinese universities, considered what they had achieved in the most difficult times, it was one of the wonders of educational history. The best of them were remarkable.
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Dr. Venn wondered whether the Committee could make up their minds in the absence of further factual information. Personally, he thought they could.
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Mr. Sloss said there was the question as to whether there was likely to be a sufficient number of new entrants adequately qualified to justify a beginning as early as September, 1946.
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Dr. Venn asked whether that did not depend on knowledge that the university would resume.
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Dr. Priestley thought that it was out of the question to re-open the university in 1946; earliest possible date.
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