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undoubtedly desirable, and we recognise
the vision which has gone to their
planning. But planning must be related
to possibilities, and, putting
possibilities at their worst, the prospect
must be faced that if no C.D. & W.
assistance is ultimately available, and if
the income from fees cannot be increased
to the extent envisaged, the University
might find itself trying to meet a wide
programme of expansion with the resources
at present available and no more; a
position of having undertaken everything
and being unable to carry anything through. Our inclination would be to suggest that
the £250,000 grant from H.M.G. should be
used for the most urgent of the five
individual projects shown in paragraph 13
of your despatch, and perhaps also in
part for rehabilitation work (your
paragraph 2 estimates that rehabilitation
work costing some $5,000,000 remains to be done) in which case some of the University's
other resources would be released to
meet ordinary recurrent expenditure; and
that an alternative plan to the one in your
despatch should be worked out before the
visit of the Inter-University Council delegation (without prejudice, of course, to consideration of the present plan)
to meet the above possibilities.
This would
naturally involve striking a balance
between