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(c) a matricultation list based on the results of
the London University General Schools Examination should be ready for issue.
The Committee is. of the opinion that no formal announcement of a date for the renewal of University activities should be made until the decision or
His Majesty's Goverment on the recommendations of the Committee are known. Meanwhile members of the staff in Hong Kong will be able to do useful work in the organising and conducting of revision and refresher courses in their subjects. The library, undamaged, will be open for the use of staff and students.
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At its first mocting the Committee became aware Ten Policy that any consideration of long term policy could not,
oven abstractly, be separated from proposals for an inmediate revival of the University and that any consideration of a long term policy for the University of Hongong could fruitfully be undertaken only when it ha considered the alternative proposal, of a worthy British University of the Fur East to serve both Malayɛ. nd Hong Kong situated either in Malaya or in Hong Kong or having Colleges in both those places. The two schemes from the Hong Kong point of view were not true alternativos. The one was for an Institution to surve to Colonial areas, the other for a University conceived partly in tomas of Colonial interest but dominated by considerations of British policy in the Far East. The Comittoo wore authoritatively informed that it had been decided to proceed with the establishment of a University in Mlays and agreed that it was undesirable and inappropriate in their view to attempt to achieve & combined University.
22. The Committee recognises that a University for Hong Kong and China should be planned on more generous lines then a University for Hong Kong alone or for Hong Hong and the Overseas Chinese Communities. It must be worthy to be the assembly place of two cultures and two types of learning. The Committee is of opinion that our quality in scholarship, the content of our culture, the organization of our way of life, the experience crystalised in our social and political insti tu ti ons have a value for China at this point in suci.1 evolution British civilisation has been enriched in recont generations by the impact of Chinese Art, Pootry and Thought, and thero is still much for us to learn. Eminent Chinese have expressed the hope that our peoples may cot hereafter more on the ground of mutual respect for achievements in the spheres of the mind and spirit and loss cxclusively in the concerns of the market place. This, apparently, is the decire, too, of those Members of the Committec who have recently lived in China.
23. Assuming that His Majesty's Government is concerned to maintin and develop the friendly relations that have existou between China. nd Britain over these past years, the Committec conclude that a really adequate British Univorcity in Hong Kong would be an excellent instrument of such policy. The Committee's proposals are made
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