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to pursue their studies abroad, and would also make for inde- pendence of scholarship. Without more foreign professors the

teaching in the niversities will not reach a high standard."

It is obvious from the above that this influ-

ential newspaper would give its full support to the plan of visiting lectureships with which we have dealt in the preceding

sub-section of this Report, and also to our supplementary scheme

of research fellowships.

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The views expressed by Sir Thomas H.Holland and

by the writer of the Chinese article just quoted are in harmony

with those arrived at by the members of the Willingdon Delegation

in 1926; and our recommendations regarding Research Fellows is

in substantial agreement with that made in Part X (xii) of the

Willingdon Report. (See pp. 22-3 and 150-1 of the "Report of

the Advisory Committee", China No. 2, 1926.) Reference was there

made to "the general view as regards subsidised students" that

"there should be no wholesale subsidising of students to be edu-

cated in Great Britain; that the subsidised students should be

few in number, should be post-graduate and carefully selected."

The Willingdon delegation therefore recommended the subsidising

"not only of post-graduate students but also of mature scholars

of recognised standing, and expressed the hope that the new

outlook and new insight acquired by those maturer minds which

cannot be easily denationalised might in some way contribute to-

wards the training of future leadership in China.

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The recommendations of the members of the Willing-

don Delegation were in minor details somewhat different from our

They proposed that provision be made both for fellowships

and for scholarships; but as the scholarships which they con-

Own.

templated were for post-graduate research students, they differ only in name from the fellowships suggested by us. We prefer the term "fellowships" to "scholarships" as the former term seems to emphasise the fact that they are intended not for schoolboys but for mature students who have already entered upon and shown

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