Forty-one candidates entered their names for the entrance examination to the Hongkong University, and thirty-nine attended. The Board of Examiners have passed twenty-three of these students, and they will accordingly be admitted as members of the University. In addition to the above a considerable number of students who are exempt from the Entrance Examination— by virtue of having passed the London University Matricul: Beni examination—have applied for admission, and practically the whole of the students of the College of Medicine will transfer to the University, so that it is expected that the University will open with at least fifty to sixty students.
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