CO129-511-14 The University of Hong Kong- plans for a Chinese school 25-7-1928 - 29-10-1928 — Page 16

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my family comes out, and we get settled in house, I shall have him up more frequently, then I can just now. You ill be At present I am staying in the Peak notel. interested to hear that John Smith passed through H.K.

recently, but he does not seem to have looked up any single one of his friends. he evidently hed no money, and in the bank he evidently conveyed the impression he was mentally unbalanced, so I was informed by the Capt. Supt. of Police. I think it was most unfortua:te for him that he ever came to a place where there was so much inflammable material about. He was much too unst ble to stand the strain, nor was his judgment sound enough to justify his being taken seriously, even if he had knowledge of the facts. Yet partly because of his irresponsibility, and his unconventional ways he was generally liked, even if he was not teenvery seriously, by his colleagues.

If only he

had kept out of the political field, he would have been

After residence at Oxford, I myself

uite harmless.

The rel: tionship of the sometimes despair of this place. University to the colony is what troubles me.

As a rule

a University, I toxe it, arises out of response to

generally felt need.

a

It emerges, inevitably at some stuge

in a town's progress educationally.

After very careful

thought, I have come to the conclusion that the University

/arose

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