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schools in the Far East would have cast their curricula to train for Chinese and other Universities alone, and our University would have still fewer applicants for matriculation than at the end of the war.

In any case the Senate cannot approve of the University going into liquidation without the presentation of a paper showing our liabilities and assets as far as they can be estimated and ascertained in this Camp. Ig we say we cannot give precise and accurate figures because no records are available in Camp, then let us have the rough estimates on which we are to base the claim that we are bankrupt.

With regard to our present staff, many are dead and more may have succumbed before the end of this. Some will be overage. Even so, it will pay us to keep on as many as possible even of the overage ones till their places can be fittingly filled by new appointments. Their experience will be of value in keeping the University pot boiling until complete re-establishment is attained.

One thing may I think be called for. The Vice-Chancellor during the first two or three difficult years after the war could act much more swiftly if temporarily he be given rather more autocratic powers than at ordinary times.

Faculty of Medicine as at present, but with some additional posts

Chair of Tropical Medicine Chair of Public Health,

and with a School of Dentistry.

Faculty of Arts as at present, with additional posts

Chair of Philosophy,

Chair of Comparative Religions, (or

as Professor Robertson has suggested calling it, a

Chair of Social Anthropology) Chair of Geography, Chair of History,

and a School of Chinese Language,

Philosophy

and Literature.

Faculty of Science as at present, with additional posts -

Chair of Botany,

Chair of Zoology,

Chair of Geology,

and a School of Agriculture.