CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5] — Page 496

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"That, as regards the application of the funds to be devoted to educational work, this Conference adheres generally to the views expressed in the report adopted by the last Conference of Chambers (asamplified by the memorandum received by the Conference from the invited educationalists), under which first place was given to the support of secondary schools in China under British control, with subsiduary provision for the development of feeder schools and with as ample provision as possible for scholarships from the feeder primary schools to the secondary schools, from the latter to the University of Hong Kong, and in appropriate cases (more especially for post graduate work) to Universities in Great Britain")

That this Conference would be glad to see the University of Hong Kong placed in a position financially to meet the obligations likely to be placed upon it".

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The most urgent need of the University at

the moment is the establishment of a Faculty of Chinese studies. I agree with what the Vice Chancellor wrote at the conclusion of his recent pamphlet on "The University Hong Kong Its Origin and Growth”. Copies of this pamphlet have been sent to each member

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of your Deputation, but I will quote three sentences.

The University of Hong Kong started with the idea, that China's greatest need was scientific and technical training; the University was to become a force in the Far East by producing qualified engineers and skilled doctors. The training of engineers and doctors is still necessary, but the University if it is to justify its existence as the only British University in the Far East, must do far more than impart technical and professional competence. Its teachers must study critically the signs of the times, and there must be among them those who are capable of interpreting the West to China and China to the West".

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Sir Frederick Lugard's first idea with regard

to the University was that it should provide in Hong Kong higher education, especially in applied science, for which Chinese students would otherwise have to go abroad. And applied science was then the cry of the moment. "Applied science," wrote the late Sir Robert Hart,

"will suit the Chinese requirements." This was also