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clusively at the disposal of the University shall not, during the tenure of their appointments, engage in
professional practice except in a consultative
capacity and with the approval of the University
Council.
ARTS.
It was
53. The Arts Faculty seems to us to have attached
itself like some half-unwanted stepbrother to those
two scientific Faculties which, to the founders at
least, gave such promise of a sturdy manhood.
felt no doubt that the materialism of Medicine and
Engineering should be offset by a course which should include Ethics and Philosophy and the humanities
generally. Later on the Chamber of Commerce was
induced to contribute towards the support of a
department where Economics and something like
Accountancy could be taught (this contribution has
ceased, but the department goes on). And finally a
Chinese School was founded to carry on the tradition
of China's antique culture. Meanwhile the Government
Education Department seized the opportunity of the
existence of a University and was provided with a
course of training for the most promising material from
its secondary schools to become teachers in Government
and Aided schools.
54.
There had probably been a vague idea that some of the Arts graduates would in time emerge as
political leaders in China. That dream, we understand,
has almost entirely failed to come true up to the
present, and we doubt if Nanking's recent decision to admit Hong Kong graduates to her examinations for
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