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pre-matriculation course, and so the scholarship would have to be

extended over five years. If students took the medical course,

then the scholarship would have to extend over seven years. Many

of these scholarships should go to intending teachers for they are

most likely to go back into the interior where they are greatly

needed and from which they will be drawn (as they did on a previous

occasion) and they are an excellent medium for diffusing British

Ideals throughout China.

A total number of 100 scholarships tenable at the University

of Hong Kong should be offered to students in the interior of China distributed strategically over the various centres:- Pekin, Hankow,

uchow, Canton, Tientsin, Foochow, and Swatow.

A total of ten scholarships for post graduate work in England

should be offered to the best of these students from the interior.

This modest scheme is in my opinion within the present

teaching resources of the University, especially on the engineering

and arts side.

A larger scheme such as was set forth in the memorandum prepared by the University for the Boxer Indermity Committee in 1925

to correct those evils the existence of which the British Economic

Mission deplores in its report, would involve additions to the

teaching staff, to the library, and to the equipment generally.

The financing of this scholarship scheme would have to be undertaken in England for the recent grant made to the University

of £250,000 (the other £15,000 which was given was in payment of a

debt, the cost of the scholarships given to students from the

interior from 1920 onwards) out of the Indemnity Funds has been used

in stabilizing the financial position of the University, which the

heavy fall of the dollar imperilled, and in making several new appointments to the University staff.

(1) A Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

(2) A Reader in Philosophy

(3)