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to Professors, 8 Demonstrators, 1 Workshop Instructor, and 1 Chinese Transla. tor. There are also 18 part-time lecturers and teachers, 2 part-time demonstra- tors, and 1 part-time master of method. There are therefore 45 whole-time teachers in the University and 16 part-time teachers.
In this connection it is interesting to note that at the College of Arts and Sciences of the Lingnan University, Canton, there were in 1931, 60 whole-time teachers for 219 students. The curriculum of the Lingnan University did not then include either an engineering, or a medical, course.
The increase in the number of students, though distinctly gratifying especially in these hard times, has brought the University face to face with the urgent need for early expansion. The increased demand for admission affects mainly the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering. Every student who enters either of these faculties has to qualify in chemistry and physics, the third pre- liminary science in the Medical Faculty being biology which is also for that faculty obligatory. These three sciences are also taken by some of the students in the Arts Faculty. The teaching staff and the lecture and laboratory accom- modation of the departments of chemistry, physics and biology are now strain- ed to their utmost capacity. Unless something can be done, the University will have to start excluding students. That will be a pity.
One of the University's greatest defects is that no attempt has ever been made, or even seriously contemplated, to make available in it a rudimentary study of art. But the Art of China is one of the glories of mankind and it draws its inspiration from the two deepest influences in the life of China-influences which reveal the importance of man and nature: the worship of ancestors and Féng Sui-the lore of wind and water.
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THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
Ordinance of 1911 conferred upon the University power to incorporate the College of Medicine. Seven members of the Court of the Collego became life members of the Court of the University.
On the 12th July, 1912, the Council of the University of Hong Kong decided to make seventeen part-time appointments in the Faculty of Medicine. The maximum emolument was £300. Sir Robert Ho Tung's endowment of the Ho Tung Chair of Clinical Surgery has already been mentioned. The first holder of this chair was Dr. Martyn Lobb, a local practitioner, but he resigned in June 1915 and in October 1915 Dr. K. H. Digby was appointed to it.
In February, 1918, a chair of chemistry was created, and in March, 1919, a professorship of pathology. June of the same year saw the creation of a lectureship in biology. All these three posts were filled by February 1920. In September, 1920, a tutorship in the out-patients department of the Civil Hospital was created, as also a lectureship in clinical obstetrics. This latter post was to be held by the Government Medical Officer in charge of the Maternity Depart- ment of the Civil Hospital.
One of the recommendations of the Sharp Commission was that three full-time clinical chairs should be established. in December, 1920, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was authorized by the Council to approach the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Richard M. Pearce of the Rockefeller Foundation came to Hong Kong and negotiations ensued between him and Sir Williaın Brunyate which ended in the endowment of three chairs in surgery, medicine, and obstetrics-the endowment being in each case H.K.$250,000.
The Rockefeller scheme involved the creation of a separate chair of anatomy. The scheme also entailed the appointment of full-time assistants in surgery, medicine, obstetrics, anatomy, physiology and pathology, also the appointment of a house obstetrician. Each of the clinical professors has a number of beds in the Government Civil Hospital for which he is solely responsible; and each of these professors works in the out-patients department of the Hospital. The clinical professors are now gazetted respectively as Surgeon, Physician, and Obstetrician and Gynaecologist to the Government Civil Hospital besides being Consultants to Government.
In 1830 Sir Elly Kadoorie and his sons presented the University Medical Unit with a diatheriny machine. This machine has proved a great boon to the poor Chinese who come to the wards of the University's medical unit in the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital.
Professor J. Anderson was the first holder of the University's endowed chair of medicine. He resigned in 1928 to take up work in the Henry Lester Research Institute, Shanghai. He died there on the 28th November, 1931. In his will he left a sum of £350 to provide for a gold medal to be awarded annually to the student who obtained the highest aggregate of marks in all professional
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