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to speech, might be suitable. There are other valuable suggestions in the papers you have circulated. hatever the advanced studies chosen they should be few but exceedingly well done and, of course, they should be related to one another so as to afford mutual support.
The research professors and visiting experts should begin work in 1947 and not wait until the undergraduate work has grown up again. Their library and laboratory facilities should be built up now, for these new post-graduate departments will attract graduate students from China at once if suitable financial arrangements can be made. Within four years there is every reason to hope that one or two of these post-graduate schools might have as many students as they need and, what is more important, might already have produced some noteworthy contribution in their special fields.
No narm would be done if this post-graduate side quickly overgrew the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences so that the University of Hongkong came to be predominantly an institution for advanced study and research, arawing its students from Chinese universities and playing an important part in tne international organisation of learning in the Far East.
It might well happen that the first two years of the Bachelors' degrees could best be done in the "tops" of King's College or queen's College or both, in the same way as a few students in our secondary schools carry on to the Intermediate and Higher Schools Certificate standara. This would leave only two years of study for the Bachelors' degrees at the University and it might become usual for students to enter the University two years later than at present with the object of proceeding in four years to the Masters' degrees or to a double professional degree. But these are questions of detail once the principles are established.
To sum up, it seems to me that we should proceed to re-establish the University irrespective of the political future of Hongkong, provided always that this future does give us time
C. . M. Cox, Esq., C.M.G.
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