CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941 — Page 23

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Dear Veale,

May I trouble you with a question about one point arising from the generous offer, of which you are aware, of £1,000 by the Rhodes Trust to Hong Kong University to enable one or more Chinese or Chinese British graduates of Hong Kong to come to Oxford?

Lord Elton in writing to the Colonial

office has quoted the note which you had kindly given him on the conditions under which Senior tatua can be granted to these students from Hong Kong. We are communicating the substance of this to the Hong Kong authorities, but before this is done could

I feel sure you help me to clear up one point: that these picked graduates from Hong Kong Univerait; would be likely either to want Senior Status or to take a Rescarch Degree. When you are considerin each of these applications for Senior Status or its merits, would a student who has one of the Hong Kong degrees other than those already approved for senior status but whose matriculation qualification to Hong Kong did not include two of the languages you mention (one of these being necessarily either Latin or Greek), in practice be automatically excluded from consideration for Senior Status: If the position is that those Hong Kong graduates whose Hong Kong matriculation qualification did not include the right

combination of languages for exemption from Oxford Responsions would not be eligible for admission to Senior Status, we ought to let Hong Kong know this; and especially if those in this category would also have to sit for Responsions (or its equivalent before proceeding to the First Public Examination.

I should be grateful if you could let me

know the position.

Yours sincerely,

Curn Cox P.T.O

VEALE, EQU

3.3.E.