One great difficulty with which the staff of the University were faced and which would occur under any scheme was that of the limited number of Chinese with a sufficient knowledge of English to profit by instruction given in that language. That meant the problem of secondary education. Mission schools required all the financial assistance they could get but the serious question was that of the machinery through which it could be provided. One must be careful not unduly to intrude on the proper sphere of the Government authorities who would: probably prove increasingly senstive to any such intrusion. He foresaw difficulties of that kind in
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