prospect must be faced that if no
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C.D. & M. 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, ond
perhaps also in part for rehabilitation
work (ich your paragraph 2 estimates
Mehdilitain work costing
that some 75,000,000 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
Vefort the visit of the Rules-Venierity Comcil delegation despatch should be worked out/without
prejudice, of course, to consideration
of the present plan) to meet the above
possibilities. This would naturally
involve striking a balance between the
full plans for building and the full
numbers of staff recommended to arrive
at a reduced, but still well-balanced,
scheme for the University as a whole.
I should add that it may eventually be
pecessary to consider whether some art