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should, for example, obviously be safeguards to prevent an officer of the University obtaining at its expense certain qualifications and, by his early resignation, reaping the benefits himself; we understand that

Government servants are more strictly bound in this

respect than the University staff. But apart from this we feel that for Hong Kong the initial qualifications required should generally suffice without the expense of further long courses of study in England.

90. We recommend that the Finance Committee should

carefully scrutinise the existing rules regarding

passages. The number of children to be carried at the University's expense may need definition; and we think that it is possible that there are cases where the grant of a Second Class passage instead of First Class might not be inconsistent with the dignity of the Universit y.

91. We recommend that in future no benefaction

in the form of a new building should be accepted unless it is accompanied by an adequate endowment for its maintenance and upkeep.

92. In our recommendations on the subject of the various Faculties we have tried to emphasise our opinion that the true vocation of the University is, as its founders realised, the training of students from China. Unless this aim is kept steadfastly in view we are satisfied that nothing of lasting value can be achieved.

Two candidates are at present selected

periodically in Yunnanfu for scholarships, and we are given to understand that when this takes place it is regarded as an event of the first magnitude in the educational life of the provime.

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