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considerations were a good deal simplified.
If his
assumption were right that the sims could he defined in
and
the sen« intended by Lorg Lugard the major concerny ef
would be with
the Committee was to jerine-
questions
scope of the Committee · off required.
the staff, buildings, equipment and the best which would
hard Lugar
fit it to achieve the ends so defined and ones-again-
ends
If, on the other
considered
reaffirmed by the British Government. hand, these social and political objects were impossible
Dritish fùs malé of achievement by means of a c University in Hong Kong, he took it that the Committee
Whether were asked to consider alternative§reens and what part
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possibly a more narrowly conceived university of Hong
be desirable,
would
Kong could play in achieving the same purposes.
t
here Mr. Sless remarked - they came up against a
- practical difficulty which was very heavy, on his shoulders
The Commmmillice ware ooked bodore u
at the moment, on short-term policy eleerty was
any car
envisaged too. What could be done immediately or almost immediately to restart certain essential activities of the University and how could those things be achieved
without prejudice to an adequate consideration of the
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more important lon -term plan. The essential matter on whunt
that he would like to get Sir Edward's reassurance en
was that the Committee could proceed on the assumption
that the policy of Government was definitely defined as
The involving reconstruction and a development of the
University in relation to China,
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Sir Edward Gent said the brief history was
follows:
In 1939 the University found itself after a series of
years very short of money and dependent virtually on
and
with a
8 ome investment
-tirefr owIY
in the
lion
main from a grant from the Hong Kong Government.
That
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raised the question whether the Hong Kong Government was
conner! Suegel Tion I how the grow from lo. Hong hong
Swould be accepted paying for something which was a Hong Kong) higher
Ho quee
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Loi was
Yout education institution or ser which
much
University which would servelas a valuable instrument
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for