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NOTWITHSTANDING the transfer of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London to Christ's College, Cambridge, the building of the School's new premises in the University of London area is being pushed forward, and should be completed, if nothing untoward intervenes, by May next. It was intended that the School should open there for the session 1940–41. In the recently issued annual report for the session 1938–39, the first of Lord Harlech's chairmanship of the Governing Body, it is recorded that, in response to an appeal which he, as Mr. Ormsby-Gore, when Secretary of State for the Colonies, had put forward, the Colonial Office has promised a sum of £4,380 per annum in subvention of the work of the School, while a grant of £2,500 has been made by the University Court for the remainder of the quinquennium for the establishment of five posts—one lectureship in Japanese, one in Turkish, and three in Arabic dialects, while a later grant of £500 for a period of not less than three years was made for a lecturership in Sinhalese. The number of students, though representing a slight decrease, was still more than four hundred. While the numbers from Great Britain and the Empire showed a decrease, there was a considerable addition to those from Germany and the United States.
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School of Oriental and African Studies. Nature 144, 1006–1007 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441006c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441006c0