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26. The Chairman thanked Sir Edward Gent for his statement. He said there were long-range and short-range terms of reference of the present Committee, and from the point of view of focusing them they should consider the immediacy of rendering advice on the short-term issues. II, there was likely to be any substantial delay before they could make up their minds on what they ought to say in answer to the first of the terms of reference, then he thought they ought to go into the question of the short- term needs concurrently or even before making up their minds. The two terms of reference were very much tied up together, because ir certain short-term measures were recommended to come into operation say next September, they might in their nature prejudice the answer to the long- range question before a decision on that had been given. Similarly, if the decision on the long-range issue was likely to be deferred for a very considerable time - say six or nine months - clearly some sort of decision had to be taken on the short-range situation confronting, the authorities in Hong Kong. Therefore he thought that' they ought to turn to the short-range question and decide what further information, if any, was were able to render advice on that.
required before they Committee would want to render an interim report quite
Possibly the quickly on the immediate situation, if it was thought that they might take some time to advise on the long-term issue. He would like to know how that suggested plan of work commended itself to the Committee.
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77. Professor Penson referring to the long-range issue said she thought she might be more ignorant than most if not all of those presnet as to the position of Hong Kong University before the war. She did not know what interpretation there had been in the past of the aims for which the University was established, and if there was any further information she thought it would be extremely useful to have it. It seemed to her too that the Committee might want to be clear as to how the original policy should now be interpreted. For example the present day interpretation of the conception or the University as a vehicle for the establishment of good relations might be rather a different thing from the interpretation of the later 19th century. There might now be a good deal more stress on the value of a university infused with the oriental attitude to education and learning rather than a university primarily modelled on Western ideas.
16. The Chairman said in reply to the first part of N4 Professor Penson's question that No.HKUAC was a note by
Mr. Sloss giving a brief history of the
A University and a summary of its position as it was before
growth of the the war. He thought it would be a matter of no difficulty to add to that statement on the factual side as much more detail, within limits as members thought useful, for example the structure of the faculties, position or teaching staff, problems of students, etc.
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19. Dr. Priestley enquired whether it would be possible for members to have a copy of the full Report of the 1939 Committee.
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The Chairman suggested that perhaps it would meet the wishes or the Committee ir the one or two copies available were circulated, to members. With regard to the
sense in which the University had interpreted the original cultural aim and to what extent it had succeeded in this, he would ask Mr. Sloss to speak.
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