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9.
A general Chinese curriculum for the proposed Chinese
that every
School has already been worked out and published both in English
and Chinese. This will be found in the pamphlet referred to above
- University of Hong Kong Arts Faculty, Syllabus of Chinese Studies.
This curriculum may be taken as a basis on which to estimate staff.
I am assuming indeed this I consider essential
student taking the Chinese School course should be required to take
English in each year of the course and to pass an examination in
English not only at the Final and Intermediate stages of the course
but also at the end of each year of the course. I am assuming that
the course will cover four years.
10.
Before proceeding to discuss the teaching staff in detail
The first is that the
I desire to make one or two observations.
school though it will not, to start with at any rate, teach for a
University degree, should be from the first incorporated in and an
integral part of the University. The second is that I consider it
absolutely essential, that the school should from the first have as
its principal a man who combines a scholarly knowledge of Chinese
with at least a capacity to write and talk English and, if possible,
a wider outlook than is likely to be found in the man who is a
Chinese Scholar and nothing else. Without such a man at its head
it will be quite impossible for the Chinese School to keep in vital
touch with the University. The Chinese School will without such a
head become a mere loose appendage to the University and those in
authority over the University as a whole will not be able to exer-
cise any effective check whatsoever over the work done in the School
or the standards to which that school should attain. Details will
of course have to be worked out, but it occurs to me that the Prin-
cipal of the Chinese School should be ex-officio a member of the
Senate, and as the School will not be under any of the three exist-
ing faculties I would suggest its working under the supervision of
a Committee of which the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, the Secretary
for Chinese (he is ex-officio a member of the Council and the Court),
Ir. A. E. Wood, the Principal, and the Registrar should be members.
P.T.0.