Tae announcement has been recorded that Sir William Brun-yate, K.c.M.G., has been invited to occupy the important position of Vice-Chancellor in the University of Hongkong. We happen to be in a position to state that Lord Milner himself nominated this fine scholar and administra-for as the result of the urgent requests of the University authorities. One of the most em-photic recommendations of the Commission which recently investigated the affairs of the University was the urgent need of appointing a distinguished Vice-Chancellor. For more than two years, since September 1918, when Sir Charles Eliot went to Siberia as British High Commissioner, the post has been vacant, and while no doubt every effort was made to fill it, the result of all endeavours was that only temporary measures were adopted for administrative work. However, it is but fair to say that the only real trouble of the University as exposed by the commission was inadequate endowment, and, as consequence, some of the mem-
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