CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946 — Page 162

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standard, and with a staff inevitably

deprived, through overwork and lack of

equipment and of the proper environment,

Dome

of any hope of making serious contribution

to knowledge, is likely in the long run to

have an even more drastic influence for ill

RANTS? upon British prestige. The Commonwealth

would earn in China, and rightly earn, a

name for pretentious inefficiency that it

can ill afford. This likelihood, and the

sinister effect of such an impression, will

both be increased by the fact that the United

States fill unquestionably, in a score of institutions that will be generously, even

lavishly, equipped, be making a real

contribution in the heart of China both to

Chinese education and scholarship and to

cushioning the impact of Western culture and

science upon the Eastern world. This is

true to some extent today. To anyone who

can read the writing upon the wall it is

obvious that the American effort will be

few

increased many times in the next/decades.

dilemma

This is the delivere with which we

are now confronted. Fortunately there is

a way in which both/herrors may be avoided,

the strengthening of the University and its

reorientation especially to attract students

and graduates from the mainland of China.