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of Notes of September 1930, to deal with the indemnity funds
We
in harmony with the general views set forth" in the Willingdon Report, and promised to invite the attention of the Board of Trustees to the recommendations contained in that Report, we felt justified in expressing the hope that as soon as the Board of Trustees found itself in possession of adequate funds it would proceed forthwith to give effect to some at least of the Willingdon recommendations, including that relating to the endowment of Chinese studies in the United Kingdom. therefore now suggest that when the status and authority of the Baard of Trustees are more clearly defined than they are at present, and when there is reason to believe that its finan- cial resources are sufficient to enable it to act "in harmony with the general views set forth" in the Willingdon Report, the Universities China Committee should take immediate steps to invite the attention of the Board to the views expressed in FWD that Report in regard to the promotion of Chinese studies in
England.
Although none of the Chinese whom we consulted
the language
was in favour of endowing chairs of Chinese (in England out of the funds controlled by the Committee, we found no objection to the utilisation of a portion of those funds in the subsidis- ing of a lectureship or chair of Chinese Art and Archaeology
We understand that the in the School of Oriental Studies.
present position of affairs relating to that post is that the Universities China Committee agreed some months ago to make an emergency grant of £500 in respect of the academic year 1931-2, on the ground that without such a grant the TWWW
It is true that the lecture- lectureship was likely to lapse.
ship does not involve the teaching of the Chinese language and literature except indirectly and in some of their archaic
forms, but in supporting the existing facilities for the study of Chinese art and archaeology in London the Universities China
Committee is at least justified in claiming that it is carrying
out the last of the five "purposes" named in the above-mentioned
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