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 167

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She is likely to welcome rather than

view with suspicion or resentment a firs

class University on part of her own

homeland only temporarily alienated;

institution indeed, which is likely

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eventually to be handed over to her, lock

stock and barrel, with al the reputation

it will have gained. With the disappearnce

of the overseas Chinese Hongkong University

policy must be overwhelmingly directed to

fostering the interest and catering for the

needs of the mainland students. This will

be inescapable and it will also be right.

It should make the institution much more

attractive to such students and the to the

ational and provincial governments whose

my pattion

will be essential to success.

The cost of living disparity ill remain

it is true, and gas even been interessed.

This will be a source of expense to the

remodelled University, but generosity

is all that will be needed to overcome

this particular difficulty; generosity

and a system of halls of residence the

nucleus of which already exists.

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The field is therefore prepared and

in the Committee's opinion, the time is

ripe, for radical change; change that

will place Hongkong University on the

pedestal upon which its founders intended