CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946 — Page 267

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present state of the world it should be possible to get

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a surances quite quickly. He did not think it would

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out.

Mr. Sloss said with regard to the point shout the employment of graduates in China that in his time, he had never known a single instance of a graduate being

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refused employment in any of the Chinese Government

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Department provided he knew Chinese.

That had been

the obstacle. So many Chinese from overseas came to

Hong Kong because they did not know Chinese; They then

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and not unnaturally they were refused.

Mr. N. L. Smith said it should be remembered

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that in 1911 when Sir Frederick Lugard had his inspiratio universities in China were almost as unknown as motor-car There was a medical school at Peking, something at Hankow a few missionary institutions. Now they are thick on the ground, and that could not have been contemplated when Sir Frederick started his seheme. The original

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creation was a lighthouse to show the Chinese what a university could be.

Mrs. Foster remarked that the standard of

Chinese universities was dreadfalły low.

Professor Hinton thought that some were very

good, although they were naturally in a bad way now.

But surely it did not follow that all the activities of a

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university, once yet had a college of arts and science as

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a basis, would have to be of an under-graduate character. The

Our idea should be not to have a large university, but to

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try to provide research work and higher degrees, and bring people from the Chinese universities to Hong Kong for

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