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CONDITIONS OF RESIDENCE.
ESIDENCE in a recognised hostel is obligatory both for men and for women students, but the Senate can remit this obligation. It has not yet been found practicable to apply this obligation to women students. The Senate, as the body responsible for the general discipline of the University, controls the working of the hostels, but there is a hostel committee, appointed by the Senate, which deals directly and in the first instance with hostel matters. A member of the teaching staff of the University lives in each of the University halls and acts as warden. The students of each hostel are required by rule to elect a committee to act as a sort of intermediary between the general body of students resident in the hostel and the Warden.
Rolls are called and there are definite rules controlling absence at night. Each hostel employs a caterer, and a student on the strength of the inclusive fee which he If he wants additional food or another kind of diet. pays, gets a Chinese diet. he must make his own arrangements with the caterer. There are athletic and other competitions between the hostels.
A hostel system is indispensable. There is nowhere in Hong Kong, where the students can find lodgings for themselves. Apart therefore from the all important part which, according to the ideas of Lord Lugard and others who shaped the University, the hostels were going to play, hostels would certainly have had to be provided. The attached hostels and the University halls of residence are controlled by the same rules.
The only bodies hitherto who have shown any desire to have hostels have been missions, and it would be obviously impossible for this University to insist that its students should live in mission hostels. But the expense of University halls is a serious matter. First they have to be built, next they have to be furnished and equipped, then the buildings have to be maintained and kept in repair. The University halls cost $309,100 to construct and the cost of their upkeep is considerable. It is sometimes forgotten that the decision to have a residential university in Hong Kong involved a liability not only to provide higher education for a comparatively small fee but also to find for each student a suitable place where he can live as a member of a residential university,
THE ANNUAL COST TO A STUDENT.
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The tuition fee is $100 a year; the hostel fee, which includes board and lodging is $300 a year. Students who are allowed to live in hostels during a vacation-some have to because of their work, e.g. students, and others because their homes are too far away-pay vacation fees at the rate of $8 a week each. When a student joins he is required to deposit caution money to the extent of $25 and to pay a registration fee of $5. The entrance fee to the University Union is $25, and the annual subscription is $20. This annual fee covers the annual subscription to practically all the athletic clubs. The graduation fee is $25. Probably about $1,400 represents the minimum amount which at present prices would cover a student's annual ex- penses including vacations. It would cost a Chinese student who goes abroad $8,500 a year at the very least and this would not cover travelling expenses.
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THE MAIN BUILDING,
THE TANG CHI NGONG CHINESE SCHOOL.
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STAFF RESIDENCES AND STUDENTS' HOSTELS,
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