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deserves every support and encouragement, and its expansion would provide a fair ground for endowments from
well-wishing Chinese benefactors. The same is true of
the Chinese Library which we understand needs consider- able enlargement. If the approach were properly made we feel sure that the sympathy of the Chinese, who alone are concerned, could be enlisted for this purpose.
66.
Throughout our enquiry we have kept in mind the primary object of the University to establish contact with China and to provide something of value to China. Most Universities worthy of the name will be found to have established in process of time some special reputation for a particular course of training or even for a particular
habit of mind. And we have been led to consider what
particular contribution to knowledge could best be made by a University in such a unique geographical and political situation as Hong Kong.
67.
The answer is not far to seek. On the one side is China at last showing signs of becoming politically vertebrate, floundering between democra●y and dictator- ship, trying to omit all the intervening evolutionary
stages. On the other hand a Crown Colony with all the constitutional safeguards of political science (except
the ballot-box) clearly defined.
68. The time may not be ripe and certainly the funds
are not yet available. But we have visions of an Arts
Faculty that would specialise in Political Theory, not as something as dead as an axion of Euclid, but more in its historical and evolutionary aspect. Lecturers would be
invited from Chinese Universities to keep that side of the historical question in vicw. Every few years there could
even perhaps be a course of lectures from someone from
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