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Mr. Slos8:
said that his
he
"My first reaction when I got
the origina
fo
Hong Kong was of complete disappointment that tim
of the University had almost completely disappeared and
nothing effective had been achieved. In the beginning,
in an attempt to spread this kind of influence in China,
it had been agreed, brgely through visits that
Sir Charles Elliot, the first Vice-Chancellor, puitto
various provinces in China, that the Chinese Brovincial
host Govern
rnments we provided scholarships for Chinese from
the interior bổ China to come to Hong Kong for periods
of three to five or six years. These scholarships were
maintained for some years and worked effectively. The
Those
Seople who came returned to China and a surprising
them
number of those scholers have since achieved positions
of some note and authority in China. But the University
started to work in 1912 when the revolution in South
China was just getting under way, and was under-estimated
seriously the depth and intensity of nationalist feelingx
not merely in South China where it began, but throughout
China, and I think we sne the British Government in those
carly vys tended rather to back the wrong herso... —
my rate, From 1912 and for many years al considerably
deepened an agonism spread among Chinese in respect of
melading Great Britain and British things und among others the
University of Hong Kong. The original scheme of
for Chevere from Cheive
scholarships gradually disappeared_
Jeton
longest. I think, in one or two of the Western Provinces,
and
but une may fairly say that by about 1918 the scheme of
At the
Azing Chinese to Hong Kong had ceased to exist.
That same time, however, the number of Chinese students
from the Straits, from the Dutch Indies, from Australia,
and occasionally from North America increased, and more
and more the University of Hong Kong tended to become a
university for Overseas Chinese. The original purpose
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