CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931 — Page 54

UNIVERSITY

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which a University ought not to undertake, not even in Hong Kong.

Finally, how can this University, which has no Professor of

Chinese, nor does there appear any chance of its getting one

the supervision, disert i on

an and control

within the remote future, possibly undertake efficiently a

Chinese School. The Han Lings can not speak a word of English

and neither I nor anyone in the Arts Faculty under which the

Chinese School works, has any but the vaguest idea of what the

School is doing, and how it is succeeding in its attempt.

What I want to do is to use the money collected for

the Chinese School, for the founding of a Chair in Chinese, and

getting as Professor of Chinese a really good scholar who knows

English and can set about

organizing the.a suitable course of

Chinese Classics as part of the Faculty of Arts curriculum.

I am,

Yours sincerely,

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WWH: MDP

w.w. Hornell

Vice-Chancellor.