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internal reforms of the University

which had been recommended, and that,

if there was any suspicion that the

Report was to be sidetracked, the

result might have been the resignation

of most of the European unofficial

members of the Court and Council of

the University, and possibly also of

certain of the Chinese members.

For this reason, and in

view of the concurrence of both the

Governor and the Vice-Chancellor in

proposed to be

the action which was taken by the

University authorities on the Report,

it was decided to adopt the Governor's

strong recommendation that the idea

of an enquiry by outside experts in

the near future should not be pursued

any further for the time being. It

was felt that the Secretary of State

was