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THE FACULTY OF ARTS.
T has already been explained that the original intention was to start the University with two faculties only the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering, but that the guarantee fund put up by Archdeacon Barnett and Sir Kai Ho Kai was regarded as making the Faculty of Arts possible. Mr. Cheung Pat Sze subsequently subscribed $12,000 a year, The Faculty was hurriedly organized. The subjects offered at the outset were English, history, political economy, Chinese, and mathematics. The teaching staff with the exception of Mr. Hinton consisted of three British and two Chinese schoolmasters who gave part of their time to the University. The object of the course was stated to be the provision of useful studies "for those who wish to enter the public service of their country, and also to those who contemplate a business career."
Then came the Great War and the curriculum of the faculty had to be re-organised. In 1919-20 there were 78 students on the rolls of the faculty, and the staff consisted of three whole-time teachers and the professor of mathematics, common to the Faculties of Engineering and Arts. All the rest of the teachers were part-time men. By March 1920 a professor of chemistry, a professor of physics, à professor of education, a lecturer in English, two tutors in English, a lecturer in political science, a lecturer in mathematics, and a lecturer in biology had been appointed. As one of the results of the University Com- mission, the Faculty of Arts was re-organised for a second time-this time into three departments one for pure and applied science, one for the training of teachers, and one for commercial training.
The work of the faculty is now divided among ten departments-English, education, social science, commerce, history, Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Seven groups of studies are taught viz.-Group 1, letters and philosophy; Group 2 experimental science; Group 8 social science; Group 4a, for teachers of science and mathematics; Group 4b, for teachers of science and biology; Group 4c, for teachers of general subjects; Group 5, commerce. To these there have just been added two further groups viz., Group 6, Chinese and English, and Group 7, Chinese studies. There is no faculty of science, the pure science work being included in the Arts Faculty. The whole-time staff of the Faculty of Arts comprises a professor and three lecturers and tutors in English, a professor of education, a professor of economics and politi- cal science, a reader in history, a lecturer in commerce, a reader and two lec- turers in Chinese and a Chinese translator. The part-time staff consists of lecturers in accounting, logic and ethics, hygiene, geography and philosophy, also a master of method who is the headmaster of King's College where the education students of the University do their practical work. The professors of chemistry and physics and the lecturers and demonstrators in these subjects work in all three faculties. The professor of mathematics and the lecturer in mathematics, who has just been appointed on a part-time basis, work both in the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts.
There are at present 103 students in the Faculty of Arts, 80 men and 23 women; of these 36 are students training to be school teachers. The courses of
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