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9.

A general Chinese curriculum for the proposed Chinese

that every

School has already been worked out and published both in English

and Chinese. This will be found in the pamphlet referred to above

- University of Hong Kong Arts Faculty, Syllabus of Chinese Studies.

This curriculum may be taken as a basis on which to estimate staff.

I am assuming indeed this I consider essential

student taking the Chinese School course should be required to take

English in each year of the course and to pass an examination in

English not only at the Final and Intermediate stages of the course

but also at the end of each year of the course. I am assuming that

the course will cover four years.

10.

Before proceeding to discuss the teaching staff in detail

The first is that the

I desire to make one or two observations.

school though it will not, to start with at any rate, teach for a

University degree, should be from the first incorporated in and an

integral part of the University. The second is that I consider it

absolutely essential, that the school should from the first have as

its principal a man who combines a scholarly knowledge of Chinese

with at least a capacity to write and talk English and, if possible,

a wider outlook than is likely to be found in the man who is a

Chinese Scholar and nothing else. Without such a man at its head

it will be quite impossible for the Chinese School to keep in vital

touch with the University. The Chinese School will without such a

head become a mere loose appendage to the University and those in

authority over the University as a whole will not be able to exer-

cise any effective check whatsoever over the work done in the School

or the standards to which that school should attain. Details will

of course have to be worked out, but it occurs to me that the Prin-

cipal of the Chinese School should be ex-officio a member of the

Senate, and as the School will not be under any of the three exist-

ing faculties I would suggest its working under the supervision of

a Committee of which the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, the Secretary

for Chinese (he is ex-officio a member of the Council and the Court),

Ir. A. E. Wood, the Principal, and the Registrar should be members.

P.T.0.