CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932 — Page 28

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COPY.

UNIVERSITY

OF HƯNG LONG

31st March, 1931.

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His Lixcellency,

The Chancella, University of Hong Kong, Government House,

Hong KonA.

My dear Chamellor,

I am very grateful to you for letting me have copies

of Jir Miles Lampson's letter to you of the 11th March 1931,

and of the note recorded by Sir kilea dated Nanking the 7th

March 1931, which was attached to his letter. These copies

came to me under yom office endorsement of the 25th March

1931, and I note that the documents are confidential.

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Dr. C.T.wang cited as an example of the elimination

of Chinese from the directing element of the University the

case of ir. Yang Chung-hui's brother. This case has been

quoted against this university in the iress 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 lang period of absence from Hong Kong) was on the point of

resigning the Vice Chancellorship preparatory to his going to

the imbassy at Tokio, and the late Professor G.. Jordan who

had been in charge of the University for some time as iro-

Vice Chancellor (a post now abolished) was on the point of be-

coming acting Vice Chancellor. Sir Charles aliot's actual

letter of resignation is dated the 26th September 1980, 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 bo-

fore the resignation was actually accepted, dir Charles had

coased to function as Vice Chancellor.

It seems that early in 1919 ten University posts had

been/