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hesitate long before abandoning the system. Failing the provision of new Hostels, it may be necessary largely to relax the rule as to residence in the case of students resident in flougkong, whose homes provide reasonable facilities for study, but it is believed that such a course would be distasteful to the students affected thereby and to their parents.
Hostel fees cover running expenses and the cost of upkeep, and provide a small surplus towards the Budget of the University, but the return in no way represents a remunerative rate of interest on the capital sunk in them. Unless, then, fees are to be increased, the capital necessary for further hostel Accommodation must be provided by outside liberality.
The existing University Hostels, with au average of just over 30 students each, have cost an average of sonie $110,000, but, with existing build- ing costs, the present figure for similar accommoda- tion must be placed at $180,000, exclusive of the cost of land.
A Medical Hostel in the vicinity of the Government Civil Hospital forms part of the schemo upon which the Rockefeller grant is expressed to be conditional, and the Government has promised to assist in finding a site and to consider its transfer upon favourable terms. This, then, should be the first commitment of the University in connection with the provision of hostel accommodation.
Room for at least two additional hostels can be found on the present University estate, and can be
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