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give it what support they can. The British

Consulate in Yunnanfu has for years been active in selecting certain scholarship

candidates from that Province, but apart

from this we are not aware that either the

Embassy or the Consulates in China have

shown any enthusiasm for or interest in the

University.

We would again emphasise our opinion that

all our recommendations will be in vain

unless the University deliberately returns

to that ideal of its founders of a steady

stream of students from China and back to

China, The stream need not, at least for

some years, be large one, but without it

we are conscious of a certain lack of aim

among the teaching staff which is reflected

in a certain spethy on the part of the

general public. We need not specify the

causes which led to the demming of the

original stroen (except for a tiny trickle

from Yunnan) ten years ago. Nor need we

say more then that funds must be found to

provide the necessary scholarships now. If

our recommendations lead to considerable

economies it is, we are convinced, in this

direction that the surplus funds should be

spent rather than in expanded activities or

(still less) in larger salaries. That the

language difficulty is not insuperable is proved by the expedient of a year's pre- matriculation study provided in the case of