Typuk
ཏིདེ སཾ, བྷཱཝ
11th March, 1946.
146
Minutes of last meeting.
Professor Redman sent a telegram to say he would be
definitely at the next meeting of the Committee.
Brigadier MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer at
Hong Kong. "I have come to make a plea for the earliest
opening of the University. We notice that students both
past and present are going to Universities already in
being, particularly in Kanton. I have spoken to
Professor
and the C.in C., and I have since talked
to Sir Mark Young, and everybody seems unanimous in that
it should be opened as early as possible even if it looks
a little half-baked'. An early opening is a point of
terrific importance. I do not think we need fear too
much the fact that the University would be ill equipped
and ill provided. Successful improvising should get
away with it. The field is clear, and the strong local
feeling is that we should get the thing opened in the
nature of say 6 months, and have a higher course in
English, and get to work on something."
Mr. Cox The impression I got was that secondary schools had stopped more or less altogether during the occupation
and that therefore the inflow of new schoolboy students
was really to be very small.
Major MacDougall. I think that must be true. There are
a number of people who have grown up in Free China and
come back. Boys and girls received secondary schooling
elsewhere.
PFOX.XXXXXXXX.Mr.Sloss.
They do not want to be cumbered
up with inefficient students. From our previous
experience there are people who would in normal times
not get admission.
Moss. Tell us please who those in authority in Hong Kong
now want the University back in Hong Kong.
Major MacDougall.
Main reasons: prestige. Also it is
hoped to influence the course of Far Eastern events
/through