MANKIO,
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March 7th, 1931.
During my conversation with Dr #ang this afternoon the question was again raised as to who should be the British educationalist on the Board of Trustees now to be
set up in China for the administration of the Boxer Indem-
nity funds. Dr kang said he had been quite unable to think
of anyone suitable: he did not know whether I had had time
to form any ideas. I said that at our interview earlier in
the weak he had mentioned the name of Sir Charles #lflott. I was afraid from what I had heard e-sually that Sir Charles cafiotf might now be on his way home, and in any case he was getting on inyyears, and I was not sure that he would be available. The mention of Sir Charles 1/iott's name had atarted a train of thought in my mind which I had not yet had time properly to pursue of to put up to wy authorities at home, but in Sir charles kifiott's successor in Hong
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sir illiam Hornell - we had a trained educationalist
of the highest standing and it had occurred to me that he
might be the very man for their purpose. Dr Wang said that he also had had Sir William Hornell's name in his mind and
that he would think it over again, of course quite informally. Hong Kong was only some two days away from Shanghai, and
therefore the geographical factor would not enter into it.
e seemed on the whole rather taken with the idea.
He went on that this mention of Hong Kong emboldened him to put to me a point which he hadlong had in mind.
Under the Indemnity arrangements a sum of £265,000 was to
go to the liong Kong University. Now he wondered whether it
might not be posd ble, in some shape or form, to increase the Chinese element in that University? It had long seemed to thinking Chinese that the elimination of Chinese from the directing elements of the University was strange, seeing that the whole object of the University was to train young
Chinese.
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