190
Government and aided English and Anglo-Chinese schools to send in, for the Junior and Senior examinations respectively, all the pupils in the two highest classes of these schools is a decisive factor in the situation. The Hong Kong Government pays the fees of these candidates.
1926
1927 1928
The candidates' figures are:
Matric: and Senior Local Examinations.
330
375 436
Junior Local Examination.
507
640
820
On the Matriculation and local examinations held in 1928, the University spent $16,208.66, while it received by way of fees, $26,792. Thus the University made a profit of $10,583.34. This is allright as far as it goes, but the conduct and management of these examinations, which are held at various centres, not only in China, but also in Malaya and in Java, imposes a considerable strain on the University office staff and on those professors and lecturers who set and examine the papers. The University would be justified in appointing a special officer to manage and control these examinations, but if this were done, a substantial source of its income would be annihilated. The University can not afford to dispense with this source of income, but it is not in the best interests of the institution, that the University staff should have to devote so much time and thought to this work. British universities and others conduct school examinations, but a special whole-time staff is invariably employed for this purpose.
NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
The number of students on the rolls on the 31st December, Sixteen of the women 1928, was 309 of whom 38 were women. students were in the Medical, and 22 were in the Arts Faculty. The number of students in each Faculty was :—
Faculty of Medicine
of Engineering
of Arts
160
55555
54
95
Seventeen students graduated in the Faculty of Medicine; nine in the Faculty of Engineering, and sixteen in the Faculty of Arts.
The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on Dr. Li Tsoo Yiu.
THE STAFF.
Two new posts were created in 1928, viz., a lectureship in chemistry and a lectureship in physics. The Readership in Biology which has been in abeyance since 1923 was also revived. Dr. G. A. C. Herklots was appointed Reader in Biology. Mr. R. A. Hill was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and Mr. D. F. Davies Lecturer in Physics.
Mr. A. L. B. Hay resigned during the year his post as a tutor and lecturer in English; Mr. A. C. Braine-Hartnell was appointed in his place.
Dr. H. G. Earle and Dr. J. Anderson resigned during 1928 to take up work in connexion with the projected Henry Lester Medical Research Institute in Shanghai. Professor L. T. Ride from the Physiological Department of Guy's Hospital was appointed to succeed Dr. Earle and he joined the staff of the University in November last. Surgeon-Commander J. G. Gerrard, M.D., R.N., has been appointed to succeed Dr. Anderson as Professor of Medicine, but he will not join the University until October 1929.
Mr. R. Robertson who was appointed in 1927 to succeed Mr. Keeton as Reader in Law and Politics took up his appoint- ment in August, 1928.
FINANCE.
The total income of the University for the year amounted to $524,746. This sum was made up as follows:
Endowments
Fees
Government Grant
Donations
Other sources
-
$243,304.89
126,303.35
50,000.00
26,001.49
2
309
3
79,137.12
$524,746.85
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