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course fully qualified Practitioners. The College recently received a bequest from a wealthy Chinese gentleman, and another offered to erect a building for the College if Government would grant a site. Hitherto there had been none. My predecessor recommended and Mr. Lyttelton in his Despatch No.131 of 23rd June, 1905, approved the reservation of two sites for this purpose, and the Court of the College had already approved the plans and were about to commence work. It appeared to me essential that if the University project took shape the College of Medicine should be amalgamated with it, and I personally conferred with the Rector and Court on the subject. They were more than ready to accept my proposals provided only that there was an assurance that the scheme would not prove abortive, and the delay in proceeding with their own plans thus proved an unnecessary sacrifice of time. They agreed to defer their building operations for a time, and I promised that if the larger project should come to fruition, the Chair of Medicine should have priority over any other, and the existing students should be admitted as undergraduates. The Court also desired to reserve the sum of $60,000 which had been promised for the building fund, and to devote it to the building of an Anatomical Laboratory on the

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29 course fully qualified Practitioners. The College recently received a bequest from a wealthy Chinese gentleman, and another offered to erect a building for the College if Government would grant a site. Hitherto there had been none. My predecessor recommended and Mr. Lyttelton in his Despatch No.131 of 23rd June, 1905, approved the reservation of two sites for this purpose, and the Court of the College had already approved the plans and were about to commence work. It appeared to me essential that if the University project took shape the College of Medicine should be amalgamated with it, and I personally conferred with the Rector and Court on the subject. They were more than ready to accept my proposals provided only that there was an assurance that the scheme would not prove abortive, and the delay in proceeding with their own plans thus proved an unnecessary sacrifice of time. They agreed to defer their building operations for a time, and I promised that if the larger project should come to fruition, the Chair of Medicine should have priority over any other, and the existing students should be admitted as undergraduates. The Court also desired to reserve the sum of $60,000 which had been promised for the building fund, and to devote it to the building of an Anatomical Laboratory on the Page 30 Page 31

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こ 29 course fully qualified Practitioners. The College recently received a bequest from a wealthy Chinese gentleman, and another offered to erect a building for the College if God $1146 で Government would grant a site. Hitherto there had been none. My predecessor recommended and Mr. Lyttelton in his Despatch No. 131 of 23rd. June, 1905, approved the reservation of two sites for this purpose, and the Court of the College had already approved the plans and were about to commence work. It appeared to me essential that if the University project took shape the College of Medicine should be amalgamated with it, and I personally conferred with the Rector and Court on the subject. They were more than ready to accept my proposals provided only that there was an assurance that the scheme would not prove abortive, and the delay in proceeding with their own plans thus proved an unnecessary sacrifice of time. They agreed to defer their building operations for a time, and I pro- -mised that if the larger project should come to fruition, the Chair of Medicine should have priority over any other, and the existing students should be admitted as under- -graduates. The Court also desired to reserve the sum of $60,000 which had been promised for the building fund, and to devote it to the building of an Anatomical Laboratory on the Page 30Page 31

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course fully qualified Practitioners. The College recently

received a bequest from a wealthy Chinese gentleman, and

another offered to erect a building for the College if

God

$1146

で

Government would grant a site. Hitherto there had been

none. My predecessor recommended and Mr. Lyttelton in his

Despatch No. 131 of 23rd. June, 1905, approved the

reservation of two sites for this purpose, and the Court

of the College had already approved the plans and were

about to commence work. It appeared to me essential that

if the University project took shape the College of

Medicine should be amalgamated with it, and I personally

conferred with the Rector and Court on the subject. They

were more than ready to accept my proposals provided only

that there was an assurance that the scheme would not prove

abortive, and the delay in proceeding with their own plans

thus proved

an unnecessary sacrifice of time. They agreed

to defer their building operations for a time, and I pro-

-mised that if the larger project should come to fruition,

the Chair of Medicine should have priority over any other,

and the existing students should be admitted as under-

-graduates. The Court also desired to reserve the sum of

$60,000 which had been promised for the building fund, and

to devote it to the building of an Anatomical Laboratory on

the

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