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(c) Autonomy.

2 249. Thirdly, the University must ontinue to be an

autonomous institution. The usual and conclusive

arguments for university autonomy need nɔt be repeated. It is sufficient to point out that in addition to these, there are in the particular case of Hong Kong University, the facts that it would not be the university of the Colony in which it is situated so that local governmental control would be peculiarly inappropriate; that it could better survive political changes if it were an independent, self-governing entity; and that it could more successfully fulfil its special mission if it were formally as well as actually to be free from government direction.

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