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field for development of railways and roads, waterworks, power plants and factories. What could be more fitting than that Great Britain, always in the forefront of engineering matters, should provide in its outpost in China the means by which the engineers required for
this awakening could be trained? There would be prestige; there would be something like benevolence; and there might be the indirect advantage of making China's pioneers think in terms of British standards
and material when it came to purchase of plant.
21.
How far has that dream of the founders been
fulfilled? It is only 20 years since the first Engineering graduates of the University went out into
the world, and it is in view of their present ages
perhaps too early to judge fully of those indirect
effects.
But we have examined carefully the statistics
of those 227 men who have graduated since 1916.
22.
Bearing in mind the objects of the founders
we must, we consider, eliminate the 35 graduates of
non-Chinese race. Of the remaining 192 only 82 have
obtained engineering posts in China proper and of these we observe that the majority are filling posts which
are not at all commensurate with the cost of their
education.
23. The cost of the Faculty for the month of
January, 1937, was $13,500. This figure covers
salaries only, with no allowance for the capital cost
of buildings and of workshop plant, and with no
allowance for administrative overheads, though the
appropriate proportions have been taken of certain courses (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) shared with
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