Ignored in Allocation of the British Boxer Funds Fnom Ove Own Connesronoeer Hongkong, Dee. 4.
The Report of the Committee appointed to advise the allocation of the British Boxer Indemnity Funds has caused keen disappointment to the authorities of the Hongkong University, who expect ed it would be benefited by a portion of the money remitted. Not a word is mentioned by the Report concerning the local institution.
Lord Willingdon when he was here intimated that he was rather pressed with the work being! done at the university, and that he would support its claims to a shar: of the funds in order to assist in a scheme of expansion which has already been outlined.
The local press has conducted 0 strong campaign on behalf of the university in seeking for support out of the Boxer funds. The ments raised in its favour ai that the Hongkong University the only institution where the undergeaduate has a guarantee that his "course will go without interference either through political upheavals or financial embarrassments and that an education acquired in Europe or in the United States not only expensive but tends to denationalize the student.
The finding of the Committee no doubt is based on the idea that the local university is not on Chinese territory and can be amply supplied with funds by the Colonial Government, and that more pres:
needs—such as the completion the Hankow-Canton Railway, ey, and provision of medical edueation'in China proper~ should be attended to in preference to the meagre question of endowing a colonial university the necessity, of which remains to be seen.
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