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IV. Senate Resolu-
tion Nos. 4
to 6.
V. Paragraph 12.
VI. Paragraph 14.
VII. Paragraph 16.
VIII. Paragraph 17.
IX. Paragraph 18.
X. Paragraph 25.
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the University, this Council is satisfied that such an impression was utterly unintended by the Committee.
Resolved that no action was necessary.
The Court proceeded to consider, section by section. the resolutions of the Council on certain paragraphs of the University (1937) Committee's Report.
Resolved (nem. con) that the investment of University funds in mortgages in Hong Kong and in Shanghai is not satisfactory.
Resolved (nem. con) that Budget provision as a reserve against depreciation charges is necessary and should be a first charge on any surplus of income over expenditure.
Resolved (nem. con) that the present scale of house allowance paid to men living off the University estate is not too high in comparison with the cost of provision made for men living in University houses and that house rent allowances should be paid as subventions towards actual rent paid, but only to the maxima of the present house allowance scale.
(1) Resolved (nem, con) that the Finance Committee be asked forthwith to consider from the financial point of view the project of building four to six flats on the University estate for bachelors or younger married lecturers or professors.
(2) Resolved (nem. con) also that the commitments entered into by members of the staff who have had to seek accommodation outside should be given sympathetic consideration if, and when, increased housing accommodation in the University grounds becomes available.
Resolved (nem. con) that the sterling superannuation
fund be maintained as a separate account and the capital sum be invested in British Government securities, the present guarantees of the Provident Fund being maintained.
Resolved by a majority vote that the teaching of Engineering in the University be reorganized on the following basis:—
(a) When the posts of Professor of Elec- trical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering fall vacant they should be held in abeyance;
(b) In Engineering the University should for the present confine itself to teaching and examining, in its fourth year courses, for a
degree in Civil Engineering;
XI. Paragraph 29.
XII. Paragraph 42.
XIII. Paragraph 47.
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(c) Arrangements should be made with the University of London for the holding in Hong Kong of an Intermediate Examination in Engineering to be taken by students who wish to become Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; and
(d) The University should contribute in the form of scholarships to be awarded to students from China to assist such students to- wards completing in London degree courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering after passing the Intermediate Examination in Hong Kong, and should endeavour to interest the Federation of British Industries China Com- mittee in this scholarship scheme and secure a contribution from them towards the training and apprenticeship of such students;
Provided that the elimination of the specialized courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering proposed under paragraph (b) should be contingent on the implementing para- graphs (e) and (d) and that the University should now recognize that specialized courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering may be justified at a time when Chinese industry is more developed (See paragraph 37).
Professor C. A. Middleton Smith spoke against and the
Vice-Chancellor in support of the motion.
Resolved (nem. con) that the Court gratefully acknow- ledges the assistance given by the Public Works Department of the Colony in the matter of post- graduate apprenticeships, and that Government be asked to institute a cadre of locally appointed assist- ant Engineers to be recruited in the main from the Graduates of Hong Kong University by selection after a period of apprenticeship in the Public Works Department.
Resolved (nem con)
(i) that difficulties with regard to the employ- ment of doctors trained in the University can best be met by the institution of a scholarship scheme whereby more students are attracted from China and after graduation, are induced to return there; and
(ii) that a Department of Preventive Medicine should be instituted in the University, and that one of its important functions should be social hygiene propaganda.
Resolved (nem. con) that the Court is of opinion that the present relations existing between the Clinical Pro- fessors and the Government Medical Service are satisfactory and that the system whereby the Clinical
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