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3 - conclusion

Briefly the pssomm tion of the Committee

in their

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port, was that the needs of Hong Kong alone do not

justify the maintenance of a university but that a first class

university would be of very great value in the maintenance of

Good relations with China and other Far Eastern territories;

they therefore consider that it "should be re-established as soon

as possible on a firm financial basis with staff and facilities

adequate to make it fully capable of reaching British academic

standards and becoming an effective centre for Sino-British

contact in the sphere of learning". The Committee added that they

believed "that the restoration of the University on its

inadequate pre-war basis would be detrimental to British

prestige in the Far East" and that the continuing damage caused

by such a situation would be greater than the inmediate effect

on prestige involved in a decision not to reopen the University. The Committee estimated that

the coat of a university such as they had in mind the demitte

would

be

ostimeter-35% approximately 21,000,000 capital and would involve an increased recurrent-expenditure of fos,oco. They emphasized that they had kept their proposals,

both as to the range of subjects and the staffing of departments,

to the minimum sheh compatible with a standard and quality

of work which would command the respect or the Chinese,

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The Committee's recommendation is briefly stated in Part 1

or the Report on pages 4 and 5, whixhaben skoleacbencocasacoex. Supporting

arguments are given fully in Part 2 of the Report while Part 3

is devoted to a detailed examination of the faculties and

departments and facilities for research that should be provided.

Consider

Ibrie: The Committee regoland that there should be four

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Faculties in Arts, Science, Medicine and Civil engineering,

Architecture and Town Planning. The primary function of the

Faculty of Arts would be "to train students in the proper

disciplines and methods of English and Chinese Languages and

Literatures, History, 'hilosophy, asthematics and the social

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