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19.
It has boom suggoatod that cough money to carry on for
another your or so what is now being att、mpted could be collected.
But I have pointed out tit what is ruclly required is not merely
vo carry on the Chinc so work in til rts Faculty but also to start
e now Chinese course. The successful students from the Government
7、rnacular Middle School could not by admitted into the Faculty of
Arts as ordinary students and von if they were so admitted, they
could not follow the course in any subject other than Ching so.
20. I must set my face against day proposal that we should
start now courses on any basis cxc.pt that of income available
from capital ruccived. Anything else is not only unsound financo
Supposing
but also impracticable.
collect enough money to
finance the Chinese instruction in the Arts Faculty and the
Chinese School for four years, then must confine the sc cours.S
to the students rho are available at the start. We cant tako on
others, buçeus that pledges us to carrying on the instruction
beyond the four years limit, noctivity for which we have not
got the funds. I dont think that it would be fair on the Univer-
sity to place it under a obligation to have to come forward at
regular intorvels and bug for money to carry on our Chinese work.
The University has many other urgent needs nd its financial pros-
pucts ar、 such as to make any cxpLsion or improvement on its
prosent financi‹l besis impossibl.. Indeca in spite of my con-
viction that the extension of the University's activities in
Chinese is of paramount importance, I should hesitate at this
moment to recommend an ppool for funds for Chinoso studios,
it not that I am assured that there are now in Hong Kong Chinsu
gentlemon who would give to thos. studios and to no other Univ.r-
sity rctivity.
HORNELL.
Vice Chancellor. 8th February, 1928.
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