CO129-588-11 Hong Kong University- cooperation with Lingnam University 31-5-1943 - 18-11-1943 — Page 13

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LONDON, November 18, 1943.

MEMORANDUM for Mr. G. Gent, Colonial Office.

In accordance with your suggestion, I am, in my capacity as President of the Board of Trustees of Lingnan University, putting briefly in writing some of the main facts that I gave you verbally a few days ago.

All of us in any way connected with Lingnan are glad to express again our appreciation for the great hospitality of Hongkong University when, after the fall of Canton, the work of our University was continued on the campus at Hongkong.

Since the fall of Hongkong, Lingnan University, thanks primarily to the energy and determination of President Y. L. Lee, has been re-started in Free China, near Kukong in Northern Kwantung. Today we have there an attractive temporary campus set up in a grove of camphor trees with matshed buildings, quite adequate for wartime work. These buildings include a library and a chapel, as well as dormitories and classrooms which have been built with funds from United States, Chinese and also, I believe, from certain British

sources.

During the past academic year funds to the extent of £20,000 were contributed through the American trustees and we expect to supply an approximately similar amount for this year also.

At present the University is organized as follows:

200 students of the Middle School;

400 undergraduates in the College of Arts

and in the College of Science;

150 graduate students, mainly in

Agriculture but some in Medicine.

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