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Engineering (who need not by Statute necessarily be a
Professor of Mechanical Engineering), that he should
be ex officio Dean of the Faculty; and that he will be
assisted by a staff of Lecturers (partly we would hope
recruited from the ablest products of the University
itself) who in the various departments would be
adequate to give instructions on the lines required.
These changes when they can be carried out without
injustice to the present staff would we are convinced
result in a better organization and a better discipline throughout the Faculty as well as securing an
appreciable economy.
26. From the Departments of Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering may in time be derived in
fuller measure than at present those advantages for
British export trade to which we have already alluded.
And we shall later on stress the desirability from
this point of view of reinforcing the work of the se
departments.
27.
The Department of Civil Engineering must be
evalued somewhat differently. Unlike the other two
departments there is not much hope, except very indirectly, of obtaining from it those material
benefits which will assist Imperial trade. For this
reason it is hardly to be expected that firms in the United Kingdom will be anxious to provide gratuitously
practical post-graduate apprenticeships for the
students concerned. And yet it is just in this field,
taking an altruistic view, that the Hong Kong University
can at present and for the next few years perhaps be of
the greatest benefit to China. Nor is it surprising that