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make that country & suitable training ground for young

China.

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(Sun Yat Sen in a speech in Hongkong University 1922

said that what made him a revolutionary in China,

was the orderly, honest, and just administration of

Hongkong).

Hongkong University (he argues) is therefore a suit-

able centre for training students from the mainland, in

that there is still the background of China, with orderly

government and security, and an example of honest public

administration provided by the British. Its standards are

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higher than that of any other University or College in

China on Western lines, and it is therefore the only in-

stitution that can furnish a guarantee to a home University

that the student is capable of benefitting by post-graduate

study. Under no circumstances should any but post-graduate

work under the scheme suggested be done in England.

The highest return for money expended will be obtained

through the University of Hongkong, for owing to the lowness

of the dollar the total annual cost of a scholarship vover-

ing every requirement of the student during session and

vacations is not likely to be more than £80 per annum for

many years.

Owing to the low standard of English in the interior

it may be necessary to bring these students into Hongkong

for a pre-matriculation course, and so the scholarship

would have to be extended over five years. If students

took the medical course, then the scholarships would have

to extend over seven years. Many of these scholarships

should go to intending teachers for they are most likely

to go back into the interior (where they are greatly needed

and from which they will be drawn) as they did on a pre-

vious occasion and they are an excellent medium for dif-

fusing British Ideals throughout China.

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