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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
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MINUTES of an Extraordinary Meeting of the Senate held on Wednesday, February 16, 1949, in the Senate Room at 4 p.m.
Present: The Vice Chancellor
Professor R. K. M. Simpson, .C.
Professor R. Robertson
Professor L. T. Ride, C. B. E.
Professor Gordon King
Professor D.F.Davies
Professor Hou Pao Chang
Professor F. E.S.ock
Professor Wong Yung Chow
Professor A.J.S. McFadzean
Professor F.A.Redmond
Professor Ma Kiam
Dr. W. G. E. ggleton
Dr. S. M. Banfill, H. E. E.
Mr. B. G. Birch
Professor W. Simon (by invitation)
Mr. B. Mellor (Registrar
A message of regret for inability to attend was received from Mr.T.R.Rowell.
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The Senate heard Professor . Simon, Professor of Chinese of London University, on a project for a London and Hong Kong Universities Sinological Institute sited at this University. The proposal arose out of the recommendation of the Scarborough Report that an Institute should be established in Peiping. As the establishment of a Peiping Institute seemed, in present conditions, to be im ossible it was sug ested that the University of Hong Kong might be regarded as immediately an appropriate place for such an Institute and that the funds for its foundation might be appropriated from those available for the fulfilling of the Scarborough Report recommendations. It was recognised that Peiping would be the most appropriate place for an Institute if conditions justified its establishment there, but that in the meantime, and without prejudging what might eventually be done at Peiping, Hong Kong was the place at which a beginning might now be made. Further " Hong Kong might serve as a permanent base from which studies on linguistic, historical and economic problems of the area south of the Yangtse might be made more satisfactorily than from Peiping. The Institute immediately would serve sinological research in general, and the teaching of research fellows from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, Government Cadets and Army Language Officers in particular. The Senate unanimously recorded its approval that negotiations be started for the foundation of such an Institute; and professed itself only too willing to place at the disposal of such a scheme the books in the Fung Ping Shan Library and the Hankow Collection in the Main Library, provided this involved no restriction upon their availability to the University under the present regulations.
The Senate approved, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine, the results of the Repeat Supplementary Examinations held in February, 1949.
The Senate recommended to Council the appointment of
Miss Margaret YU LAN SANG as Assistant arden in charge of the temporary Women's Hostel.
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Chairman.
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