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as is

Committee should maintain standards that

the University, when reconstituted, would

find no difficulty in accepting and it would

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also be necessary to give some indication

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of the future to new students, who should

be admitted on a test not lower than the

University would prescribe. They could be

given a promise that the standards of

teaching and examination conducted under

the authority of this Committee would be not

lower than had been achieved in the past

by the University.

we feel,

It would then, I think,

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be necessary to add something in general

terms to the effect that the form in which

higher education should be continued in the

Colony is at present under consideration.

11. We should be glad to know whether

you agree that the University should not be

formally re-opened until January, 1947,

and also to have your views on the proposal

set out in the foregoing paragraph. If

you agree with it, perhaps the most

convenient way of making the position clear

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to new students would be to make a public

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to avoid seying anything in this announcement

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about the formal re-opening of the

University, unless, by the time it is made,

some decision has been taken on the

Committee's recommendation.

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Perhaps you would let us see, in draft Form?

any announcement which you propose

to make

(Sgd.) T.I.K.LLOYD.