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SINO-BRITISH SCIENCE CO-OPERATION OFFICE

(BRITISH COUNCIL CULTURAL SCIENTIFIC OFFICE)

BRITISH SCIENTIFIC MISSION IN CHINA

Please address from abroad:-

Co British Embassy, Chungking Via the British Council,

3, Hanover Street, London, W

Or via the British Commonwealth Scientific

Office, Dupont Circle Building, Washington, 6. D.C.

Or via China Relations Office,

Reserve Bank Building, Calcutta.

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1, VICTORY VILLAGE,

LIANGFU LU,

CHUNG KING

137

中

英科學合

重慶兩浮路

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勝利新村一號

Please quote reference: 9.34 R

G.E.J. Gent, Esq., Colonial Office, London.

22nd August 1945.

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55-213/44

Dear Gent:

This letter is my answer to your letters of 27th. December 1944 (55213) and of 30th. May, 1945 (12955/F/44).

I am at last able to give you such views as I have been ableır to form on the future of Hongkong University.

Although I have not so far visited Hongkong I have had the advantage, during my time in China, of useful dis- cussions with, Professor Gordon King and vol. (Professor) Lindsay Ride. My first Chinese colleague here, Mr. Huang Hsing-Tsung, now at Oxford, was able to tell me something of the University from the students' point of view. I enclose a copy of a memorandum written by Prof. King (and embodying also the views of Prof. Ride) which was sent to you some time

ago.

I have also before me a number of documents which you were so kind as to send me, and a copy of the 1939 Report of the Committee on the Development of Hongkong University.

(187

First of all, I should like to say that I entirely agree with the view expressed in Ch.I of the Report that the university has a vocation to train students from all over China, representing thereby a University of British type and tradition. The American influence is of course widespread in Chinese edu- cation, and while I am an admirer of the many good points of

the

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