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the University on its inadequate pre-war busis would be
detrimental to British prestige in the Far East" and that
the continuing damage caused by such a situation would be
greater than the immediate effect on prestige involved in
a decision not to reopen the University. The Committee
estimated that the cost of a university such as they had
in mind would be approximately £1,000,000 capital and
would involve an increased recurrent expenditure of
£85,000. They emphasized that they had kept their
proposals, both as to the range of subjects and the
staffing of departments, to the minimum compatible with
a standard and quality of work which would command the
respect of the Chinese.
7.
The Committee's recommendation is briefly stated
Supporting
in Part 1 of the Report on pages 4 and 5.
arguments are given fully in Part 2 of the Report while
Part 3 is devoted to a detailed examination of the
faculties and departments and facilities for research
that should be provided. The Committee consider that
there should be four Faculties in Arts, Science, Medicine
and in Civil Engineering, Architecture and Town Planning.
The primary function of the Faculty of Arts would be "to
train students in the proper disciplines and methods of
English and Chinese Languages and literatures, History,
Philosophy, Mathematics and the Social Sciences". ΤΟ
this end there should be Departments of English (Language
and iteraturo), Chinese (Language and Literature),
Social Sciences, History, Philosophy, Geography and
Mathematics with two specifically post-graduate Depart-
ments of Education and Social Studies. The total staff
in the four Faculties proposed (excluding provision for
extrui-mural