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permitted, and no test of religious belief or pro- fesssion thall be imposed, in order to entitle any person to be admitted as a member, prœfossor, 100- turer,
teacher or student of the University, œ to hold office therein or to graduate thereat, or to hold any advantage or privilege thereof,"
However, as I have already said, the Council intervened
(how the Council got the information that Dr. Wang'a ap- plication had been ignærød does not appear) and having in-
tervened, nothing was clearly allowed to stand in the way
of the best man being appointed, even though another man
had actually accepted the prat.
11.
I can assure you that such an incident will not
recur while I am Vice Chancellor, I have always recognized
the necessity for increasing the number of Chinese on the
University staff and I appreciate the fact that that necess- ity has become all the greater now that we are on the point
of getting £265,000 from the Boxer Indemnity a contribu
tion which we should not have got at all, if ix. C.T.Vang and his colleagues had opposed the wishes of His Majesty's Government in this respect. It has, however, been my ex- perience that it is not easy to find Chinese who are quali- fied for Chairs in this University. Not a great number of Chinese students go to British Universities; many Kope yo
to America and those who do well there are generally taken an by American Institutions in China. For medical chairs
we want specialists. The Chair of Pathology is still vacant
but so far as I know in the whole history of the University'
Medical School, only one graduate has specialized in patho-
logy and ite allied branches and he was a Malay Dr. Austa...
pha Bin Osman. We recently advertised locally for an Assis- tant in Pathology to succeed Dr, Osman, but got a very poor field of applicants. Very few of our own graduates take post-graduate courses and I imagine this is largely tme of mt universities in China generally. However, I shall s00
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