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had drifted to that.
there were) attempts made to present a more attractive
front towards China. There was a very considerable
development of Chinese studies, the establishment of a
very excellent Chinese library, and later the appointment
of an outstanding Chinese scholar as Professor of Chinese,
So that
There was and in the later years from about 1930 onwards, you had
the rather curious phenomenon of Hong Kong tending to
From time to time intermittently
be one of the centres of Chinese classical studies.
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All the time, however, the Medical School had been
This
developing, and the Hong Kong Medical Schoul did achi
id achie ve
a definitely high reputation in the Far East. Bother
faculties were starved. It was very late in the day
before anything was done towards anything like an
xaxdan adequate provision for the training of teachers;
for instance the faculty of science in the iniversity
provided
never beeane anything really
more than facilities for the
medicine and engineering.
until these last years)
preli inary setence for
Studies His Sloss though therefore 11ial So that I think the answer
is bound to be that the initial object of the University had ceased to be effectively followed. In the meantime,
however, that it was unsatisfactory. From time to time
in meetings of our University Lodies the realization
was evident that the University was drifting in a way
The brew was too
A
that was never intended. There developed too the
realization
al supstand in that—urain is the background-of Sir Andrew
Cal ecott's letter 4 that it was no essential part of
the
the function of Hong Kong Government to provide
relatively cheap me lical education to the Chinese of
Malaya.
The responsibility there lay with the Straits
Government. And there grew to the feeling that
possibly the a mistake had been made; that as an
institution intended to serve the escential needs of
њ вашскут Hong Kong it was pretentious and over-ambitioun, Hong
Kong with its population of something between three-
quarters of a million and one and a quarter miltion in
the