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Partial failurc or larger aim.

(a) Its poverty.

стовету Colony.

There is sufficient evidence that

it lomed lire, and was regarlo as a symb 1 of the vitality of a clatively small community.

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Bu "vehicle for the establishment of socd relations" the University had not fully achieved the aims of its founders.

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A measure of initial success Vis arrested by the impossibility of alloquete staffing and finance during the war years 1914-1919. The University had been started with no clear conception of the cust cven a small modern University; in the War period local fun is went elsewhere, an the Govern- ment is unable to give Mloqu to help. crisis arose in 1921 1922 which worü years of depression. Al attempt to raise money by enoral col preal failud and the University had to be restored by a large grant from the Coloni..l Treasury. At a later date the Government found itself ablo to in rease its rant, but betoon the years 1921 and today the University has never been solvent much loss in a position to develop adequately to meat oven local demands, cxcopt perhaps in Medicine and, later, in Chinese studies.

(b) Chinese

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