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students who go there are not, to any appreciable extent, "handicapped in their work" - to use Sir Thomas H.Holland's
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words already quoted "by the distractions of a strange social
as well as a new academic atmosphere."
Although it is out of the question for the Uni-
versities China Committee to assign any part of its slender
income to the University of Hong Kong for scholarships or any other purpose, we are strongly of opinion that an effort should
to co-operate be made to encourage the University) with the Committee as far
as may be found feasible in connection with our proposed
scheme of lectureships and fellowships. It should not be
found impossible to arrange that British lecturers coming to
China should visit the University of Hong Kong and give a few
lectures there; nor should members of the existing British
professorial staff in Hong Kong be deberred from becoming
candidates for either lectureships or fellowships for purposes
of lecturing or research in China. We discussed these and
kindred topics with the vice-chancellor, Sir William Hornell,
and we gathered from him that his University would be glad to
participate in the scheme; indeed he thought it would be a
slight to the University and injurious to British interests in
China, if Hong Kong were ignored. A WUIN suggestion he made
was that some of the holders of lectureships under our scheme
might lecture and study for a year or so in a Chinese univers-
ity, then take up temporary postsin Hong Kong University as
teachersof such subjects as economics and sociology.
their subsequent return to England their usefulness in their
own academic environment would probably be greatly increased by
the experience and knowledge gained by them in China and Hong
Kong. As to the fellowships, it is urged in Hong Kong that
its graduates should be eligible for these. It is pointed out
by Professor Forster that the standards of Hong Kong University
"are higher than those of any other university or college in China on Western lines, and it is therefore the only institution
that can furnish a guarantee to a home university that the
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