accrue to the University from the contribution from the Boxer Indemnity has not yet been finally assigned to the various purposes of the Institution, In the course of last year the Boards of the Faculties met and drew up schemes which embodied the minimum of their most urgent wants. The Senate approved these schemes.
But the Council of the University suggested to the University Court that, before finally allotting the 'additional income, the question of the provision which the University should make for the teaching of Chinese should be thoroughly investigated by a Special Com- mittee. The Court agreed and appointed a special committee of which the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn was made Chairman. The Committee's report was not made available until after the close of the period under review. When the claims of Chinese have been adjusted against those of the other University activities, then the scheme for assigning the whole of the balance will go before the Court of the University. Considerable savings were also effected by the deputation of Professor Brown to the Henry Lester Trust.
Considerable improvements were made to the grounds and
buildings.
UNIVERSITIES' CONGRESS.
The Universities Bureau of the British Empire organised in July 1931 in Edinburgh a Congress of the Universities of the British Empire. The University was represented at this Con- gress by Professor G. T. Byrne, Professor W. Brown and Mr. W. J. Hinton who was formerly Professor of Economics in the University and is now working for the Institute of Bankers, Lon- don.
The Universities Bureau is now being reorganised and the University has appointed Mr. Hinton to represent it on the Universities' Council which is now being organised in London. FARADAY CELEBRATIONS, 1931.
The centenary of Michael Faraday's famous discovery of the production of electricity from magnetism was celebrated in Lon- don during September, 1931. The commemoration took the form of a series of events arranged by the Royal Institution, together with the organisation of a great exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, where much historic apparatus was displayed.
The University of Hong Kong was represented at these celebrations by Professor C. A. Middleton Smith. It is interest-
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ing to note that the Tsun Hua University of Peking was repre- sented, its delegate being Dr. C. Y. Chao.
DEATHS.
Sir Charles Eliot, the University's first Vice-Chancellor died at sea on the 15th March, 1931. Dr. J. Anderson the Univer- sity's first Professor of Medicine, died at Shanghai on the 28th March 1931.
Mr. Fung Ping Shan-a life member of the Court and a benefactor to the University, died on the 31st August, 1931. The Fung Ping Shan library is now being erected in the University's grounds. Dr. J. Fenton who was formerly a Lecturer and Tutor in English in the University died in Hong Kong on the 26th August 1931. Mr. Wong Kam Fuk a member of the Court of the University died in November 1931. Miss Leung Tsui Hoh died in Canton on the 30th June 1931.
She was a medical student in the first year of her studies.
CEREMONIES.
The chief ceremony of the year was the opening on the 28th September 1931, by His Excellency the Governor, of the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese. The following account of the build- ing was given by the Vice-Chancellor in his last Congregation. speech :-
It is an admirable building-a worthy memorial of the generosity of him who gave it. Just inside the door of the building the donor has had inscribed in Chinese and English a legend to the effect that the building is given to the University to enable it to fulfil its statutory obligation in the matter of Chinese teaching. Chinese studies are to have the first claim on the accommodation of the building; when that claim has been reasonably met, the University is at liberty to make the best use it can of the rest of the building.'
MANAGEMENT AND STAFF.
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The Finance Committee.-Mr. Paul Lauder the Treasurer was on leave for 6 months during 1931 and Mr. G. S. Archbutt acted for him during that period. The University owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Archbutt not only for his work as acting Hon. Treasurer but also for the work which he did as Chairman of the Special Committee which was ap- pointed by the Council to revise the Superannuation Fund regula-
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