COPY.
CONFIDENTIAL
UNIVERSITY
OF HONG KONG.
31st March 1931.
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His Excellency,
The Chancellor, University of Hong Kong, Government House,
Hong Kong
My dear Chancellor,
I am very grateful to you for letting me have copies
of Sir Miles Lampson's letter to you at the 11th March 1981,
and of the note recorded by Sir Miles dated lanking the 7th
March 1931, which was attached to his letter. These copies
came to me under your office endorsement of the 25th March
md I note that the documenta are confidential.
1931,
2.
Dr. C.T.Wang cited as an example of the elimination
of Chinese from the directing element of the University the
case of ur. Wang Chung-hui's brother. This case has been
quoted against this University in the Press and I welcome the
opportunity of stating what happened, so far as that can be
ascertained from the records of the University.
3.
The incident occurred in 1919 five years before I
came here, At the time the late Sir Charles Eliot (after a
long period of absence from Hong Kong) was on the point of
resigning the Vice Chancellorship preparatory to his going to
the Embassy at Tokio, and the late Professor G.P. Jordan who
had been in charge of the University for some time as fro...
Vice Chancellor (a post now abolished) was on the point of be-
coming acting Vice Chancellor. Sir Charles Eliot's actual
letter of resignation is dated the 26th September 1920, but I
know, for I was passing through Hong Kong at the time on my
return from a visit to Japan and China, that for some time be-
fore the resignation was actually accepted, Sir Charles had
ceased to function as Vice Chancellor.
4.
It seems that early in 1919 ten University posta had
been/
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