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HISTORY:

The University in the past has conspicuously

failed to provide sufficient breadth and quality

in its History Department. The importance of studies in Far Eastern History was recognized but there would gain by an adequate background of knowledge of Western and American

The minimum staff required would be :

History.

1

1

Professor Reader

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Dividing responsibilities for studies in Western and Far Eastern History Tutors.

Á 2 Lecturers

SOCIAL STUDIES:

It is believed to be of primary importance at

this stage both of the development of a new

Colonial policy and of the emergency of modern institutions in China that adequate provision should be made for the study of living institutions against a background of political and economic theory, and of sound history. A sub-Committee was

appointed to consider this matter in more detail and to take counsel with English scholars in this field.

After con-

sultation with Professor Ginsburg and Professor Marshall of the London School of Economics an outline plan was presented which the Committee still has to consider. This Department should grow into one of the maj r Departments in the Faculty

of Arts. The minimy staff was estimated at :

1. Professor in Social Philosophy

1..

Lecturer (Economics)

1. Lecturer Chinese Economics)

1.

Lecturer (Economic History)

1. Lecturer (Jurisprudence and Social Law)

PHILOSOPHY:

Lecturer (Administration)

A University in Hong Kong, if it should become

the natural meeting place of Chinese and British

scholars was thought to be an obvious place for comparative

studies in Eastern and Western philosophy. For a beginning the

staff should be: