maraaaatnaa HONG KONG UNIVERSITY attackEVONOVNE additional and more advanced paper in Chinese. The Committee advocated the appointment of a reader, whose duty it should be to build up the department and to direct its teaching, and of two lecturers and a translator.
The Senate, Council and Court of the University have accepted these recommendations. The School of Chinese Studies is closed and provision is now being made in the Faculty of Arts for the two additional groups of studies advocated by the Committee. Mr. F. S. Drake has been appointed Reader in Chinese. He will take up his appointment in August.
There are now nineteen students studying Chinese in the Faculty of Arts. Of these, two are taking Group 6, and three, Group 7.
The Committee recommended that the ultimate aim of the University should be to adopt Kwok Yu as the medium for such instruction in Chinese as is not given in English and that, with this end in view, Government should be asked to take such steps as will encourage the study of Kwok Yu in the schools of the Colony. This is a matter on which sinologues appear to differ.
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