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Chemistry is an obligatory subject for the first two years both of the medical course and of the engineering course. Chemistry is also a subject which must be studied for 3 years by those who take the Experimental Science Group of the Faculty of Arts and may be taken as a final year subject in this group. It also forms part of the Group for Teachers of Mathematics and Science, as also of the Group for Teachers of Science and Biology. It may be taken in the first or second year course of the Department of Commerce.
During 1931 there were 124 students in the Department of Chemistry; 46 of these were medical students, 62 were engineering students and 16 were students of the Arts Faculty. Only 4 students of the Arts Faculty were taking the 3rd year course and only one the 4th year course. It is a pity that more students are not taking advanced courses in chemistry. To say nothing of the importance of the subject there should be a demand in the Colony and elsewhere for school-teachers of chemistry.
The Professor remarks that the teaching of physical chemistry has been developed by the Lecturer and pleads for adequate equipment and suitable laboratory accommodation for this important branch of chemistry.
The Professor emphasises the valuable and welcome assist- ance in connexion with practical work which he received from the Honorary Demonstrator, Mr. Hui Pak Mi.
CONCLUSION.
The University was formally opened by Lord Lugard on the 11th March, 1912. It, therefore, comes of age on the 12th March, 1933-
This will be an occasion for taking stock of the University's work. Suffice it for the purposes of this annual report to point out that in spite of the general economic depression and in the face of the recent raising of the University's fees, the number of students stands higher now than it has ever stood before.
This report attempts to show some of the defects in the University's teaching arrangements. To the possible rejoinder that the conditions under which the University has grown being what they are, economy is the first consideration, it may perhaps be permissible to suggest that the potential value of the University to British commercial interests in the Far East has now been
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generally recognised and proclaimed by those British business men who are anxiously watching for a happy issue out of the World's present economic afflictions. But this is perhaps not the only, or indeed the real, answer. The University of Hong Kong stands for something in the educational hierarchy not only of the Far East but of the civilized world. The problem of the Pacific and of the countries which border on that ocean is the gravest problem which is now facing humanity. The University and the schools of Hong Kong are factors in that problem.
W. W. HORNELL,
Vice-Chancellor.
Hong Kong, 27th April, 1932.
Students.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY FOR THE YEAR 1931.
From January to May, 1931 there were 148 students in the Medical Faculty and from September to December the number decreased to 146.
Degree Examinations.
Staff.
The results of the degree examinations were as follows:-
M.S. Degree.
I Candidate sat for and obtained the M.S. Degree. M.D. Degree.
I Candidate sat for and obtained the M.D. Degree with Obsterics & Gynecology as the special subject. M.B., B.S. Degree.
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In the Degree Examination in May seven didates qualified for the Degree of M.B., B.S.: in December seven qualified. Thus the total number of medical graduates for the year was fourteen.
During the year the Chair of Pathology was filled by Dr. L. J. Davis, M.D. (Edinburgh University) who had been working in the Sudan and in Egypt. It is to be hoped that in his capable hands the teaching in Pathology will soon regain the ground
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