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an undergraduate is expected to devote to private reading, and to the many social activities of a University. Nevertheless the average Chinese student undertakes both elementary and more advanced work in English, with an enthusiasm and success that is greatly to his or her credit.
The Group of Letters and Philosophy, to which the Pro- fessor of English acts as an adviser, continues to attract a fair proportion of students, although it is unlike most of the other groups of the Faculty, in that, as a pure arts course, it is not a definite preparation for a specific means of livelihood. It also suffers from two disadvantages; it offers no study in Western letters other than English, and there is still no full-time professor, reader or lecturer in philosophic subjects. Nevertheless this group, with its improved opportunities for the study of Chinese Letters and Philosophy, represents the ideal course for Chinese who wish to attain such a standard in both Chinese and English, as will enable them to interpret the East to the West, or the West to the East.
ROBERT K. M. SIMPSON,
Professor of English.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
Staff: L. Forster, M.A. (London), (Professor of Education). A. Morris (Master of Method-Part-Time).
G. W. Reeve, B.A. (Part-Time Lecturer in Logic & Ethics). The number of students in the Education Department during 1930 was 34. 14 in Group 4a and 20 in Group 4b.
Ist Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
4th Year
EXAMINATION RESULTS.
Referred
Passes Failures Candidates
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3
6
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The same criticism which I passed last year on the work in this Department applies this year. The Training of Teachers cannot be carried on by part time methods, and it will never be efficient until the present inadequate staff is strengthened and
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much greater attention paid to the professional side of the work. The Faculty has recognised the need for raising the standard by recommending the creation of a Diploma Course, and the ap- pointment of a Lecturer in Education to make the scheme possible.
The Education Society again had a most successful year. In addition to the usual course of lectures and social events, it produced its fifth Educational Journal under the Editorship of Mr. Mak Kai Hung. The issue was well reviewed, and favourably commented on by those interested in education. The Society also decided to open a free night school and be responsible for the teaching. It is hoped that during 1931 such a school will be in existence.
The Department has again to thank Professor J. L. Shellshear for a short course of lectures on the Nervous Structure, the object of this course being to help the students in their Psychological studies.
In January I induced a Group of students in the fourth year to take a course in Art at King's College, but owing to the illness of the Art mistress, the course was not completed.
Though many Education Students take Biology as a subject in their course, so far none has enrolled in the new Group 4b, which aims at a certain degree of specialization in this subject.
L. FORSTER, Professor of Education.
Staff:—R. Robertson, M.A., Professor of Economics and Political
Science.
M. A. Cooper, B. Comm., Lecturer in Commerce.
T. A. Martin, A.S.A.A., Part-Time Lecturer in Accounting
and Business Finance.
W. Y. Harry Hong Sling, Ph.B., M.A., Part-Time Lecturer
in Pacific Trade.
During the first term of the session of 1930, the classes in Economic History and Statistics were conducted by Mr. W. L. Handyside, M.A. During the same term the class in Commercial Law was undertaken by Mr. L. d'Almada e Castro, Barrister-at- Law. In September Mr. M. A. Cooper, who had been appointed
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