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Advisory Committee are emphatically of the opinion that it would be "both unwise and useless" to attempt to fill the vacant professorships until the future of the University can be clearly defined.
8. While we do not accept Sloss's views in their entirety, we think there may be some advantage in deferring the re-opening of the University until January, 1947, when the position regarding staff and equipment should be more satisfactory and then a decision will, we hope, have been reached on the future of the University.
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9. Sloss has put forward a suggestion that, in the meantime, the facilities of the University might be made available for the purpose of higher education at the earliest possible date by placing them under, the direction of a temporary ad hoc Government Committee. We understand that no executive act is required to keep the University in its present state of suspense, and that this can continue, so long as appointments to the Council and Senate are not filled. Sloss tells us that," in fact, a Committee has been established under the Chairmanship of Professor Simpson, and includes in its membership Professors Robertson and Gordon King, Morse and Followes. If this Committee were expanded to include the Director of Educution and such other Government officials as you think desirable, together with two or three former Chinese members of the University Council, it would be the sort of Committee. he has in mind.
10. It would be necessary, of course that this Committee should maintain standards that the University, when reconstituted, would find no
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